laravel format() function working for some blades only

Question

I am damn confused about the format() function of laravel.In some blade format() works fine.But in user.blade works only when I add following function

public function getDates()
{
    return array('created_at', 'updated_at', 'deleted_at', 'last_login_at');
}

user.blade

<td>{{ $user->created_at->format('d/m/Y')}}</td>

and in my activity blade not working even getDates() function added.what's the reason behind that? Thanks in advance.

Error =Call to a member function format() on string (View: C:\\inetpub\\wwwroot\\odata\\resources\\views\\activity\\list.blade.php)

Answer 1

You don't need to override getDates() function. Just add columns to a $dates variable:

protected $dates = ['deleted_at', 'last_login_at'];

When you're doing this, Laravel will create Carbon instance for these dates, so you'll be able to use format() and other funtions.

Answer 2

It is giving you error because format() is function of Carbon.

Use below code in your blade.

 {{\Carbon\Carbon::parse($user->created_at)->format('d/m/Y')}}

To know more about Carbon visit http://carbon.nesbot.com/docs/ .