Laravel - Date mutator

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Trying to make a mutator in Laravel for date but it doesn't work. This is my example ``` public function getEventEndAttribute($date) { return Carbon::parse($date)->format('d.m.Y H:i') } ``` For example in my User model i have this mutator that is working perfectly: ``` // convert email address to lowercase public function getEmailAttribute($value) { return strtolower($value); } ``` So even if a user write an email with uppercase letters in view it will be converted to lowercase.... And i want the same for my date...to convert from MySQL DB format to my local format This was copied from SO and still doesn't work. Please help. Controller ``` <?php namespace App\Http\Controllers; use Illuminate\Http\Request; use App\Http\Requests; use App\UserRequest; use Carbon\Carbon; use Auth; use DB; class UserRequestsController extends Controller { /** * Display a listing of the resource. * * @return \Illuminate\Http\Response */ public function index() { //dd(DB::table('user_requests')->get()); retu…

Accepted Answer

You can actually have laravel automatically mutate your dates to a `Carbon` object by adding the dates array to your model:

```
protected $dates = [
    'created_at',
    'updated_at',
    'event_end'
];
```

You can then just format it inside your blade template:

```
{{ $myModel->event_end->format('d.m.Y H:i') }}
```

Or you can add the `$dateFormat` property to automcatically convert all dates on this model to your chosen format:

```
 protected $dateFormat = 'd.m.Y H:i';
```

See date mutators: https://laravel.com/docs/5.3/eloquent-mutators#date-mutators

Laravel - Date mutator

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