Laravel 5.7 Reformat Date Time Stamp in View - laravel

Question

By default when Laravel creates a post it stores the date and time stamp as:
2019-01-31 23:32:06
How can I show it in the view as - Jan 31st, 2018 11:32pm?

Answer 1

U can use Php Carbon in modifying date. eg.
$dt = Carbon::createFromFormat('Y-m-d H:i:s.u', '2019-02-01 03:45:27.612584');
// $dt->toAtomString() is the same as $dt->format(DateTime::ATOM);
echo $dt->toAtomString(); // 2019-02-01T03:45:27+00:00
echo $dt->toCookieString(); // Friday, 01-Feb-2019 03:45:27 UTC
echo $dt->toIso8601String(); // 2019-02-01T03:45:27+00:00
// Be aware we chose to use the full-extended format of the ISO 8601 norm
// Natively, DateTime::ISO8601 format is not compatible with ISO-8601 as it
// is explained here in the PHP documentation:
// https://php.net/manual/class.datetime.php#datetime.constants.iso8601
// We consider it as a PHP mistake and chose not to provide method for this
// format, but you still can use it this way:
echo $dt->format(DateTime::ISO8601); // 2019-02-01T03:45:27+0000
echo $dt->toISOString(); // 2019-02-01T03:45:27.612584Z
echo $dt->toJSON(); // 2019-02-01T03:45:27.612584Z
echo $dt->toIso8601ZuluString(); // 2019-02-01T03:45:27Z
echo $dt->toDateTimeLocalString(); // 2019-02-01T03:45:27
echo $dt->toRfc822String(); // Fri, 01 Feb 19 03:45:27 +0000
echo $dt->toRfc850String(); // Friday, 01-Feb-19 03:45:27 UTC
echo $dt->toRfc1036String(); // Fri, 01 Feb 19 03:45:27 +0000
echo $dt->toRfc1123String(); // Fri, 01 Feb 2019 03:45:27 +0000
echo $dt->toRfc2822String(); // Fri, 01 Feb 2019 03:45:27 +0000
echo $dt->toRfc3339String(); // 2019-02-01T03:45:27+00:00
echo $dt->toRfc7231String(); // Fri, 01 Feb 2019 03:45:27 GMT
echo $dt->toRssString(); // Fri, 01 Feb 2019 03:45:27 +0000
echo $dt->toW3cString(); // 2019-02-01T03:45:27+00:00
Kindly read more about Php Carbon

Answer 2

You can use Carbon in laravel.
First, use carbon:
use Carbon\Carbon;
Then use the format you want, in your case, it would be like this:
public function test()
{
$dt = User::find(1);
return $dt->created_at->format('M jS\\, Y h:i:s A'); //Dec 1st, 1975 02:15:16 PM
}
You can also use it in your view, just use carbon at the top of your file:
<?php use Carbon\Carbon;?>
then change the format in your display like {{$dt->created_at->format('M jS\\, Y h:i:s A')}}

Answer 3

Your input is 2018-01-31 23:32:06.
Your expected output is Jan 31st, 2018 11:32pm.
I have created a function:
function convertToPreferedDateFormat($dateString='')
{
$toTimeString = strtotime($dateString);
$yourExpectedFormat = 'M dS, Y h:ia';
// $prettyBeautifullWay = 'l jS \of F Y h:i:s A';
return date($yourExpectedFormat, $toTimeString);
}
Then now testing
$timeString = '2018-01-31 23:32:06';
$expectedOutput = 'Jan 31st, 2018 11:32pm';
echo convertToPreferedDateFormat($timeString);
echo "<br>";
echo $expectedOutput;