Laravel and HTML 5 datetime component
I want to store all dates in UTC format into the database. To use HTML5 datetime-local element you have to do some conversion of datetimes. The HTML5 element expects a format of ‘2013-08-14T18:55’ (Y-m-d*H:i). In this post I’ll show you how I solved this.
View:
{{ Form::input('datetime-local', 'matchdate', $matchday->matchdateHTML5()); }}
Presenter:
public function matchdateHTML5() { return $this->toHTML5Date($this->resource->matchdate); } public function toHTML5Date($dt) { $dt->timezone('Europe/Amsterdam'); return $dt->format('Y-m-d\TH:i'); }
Controller:
//update or create function: $matchday['matchdate'] = $this->convertHtml5dateToUTC(Input::get('matchdate')); public function convertHtml5dateToUTC($dt) { $matchdate = Carbon::createFromFormat('Y-m-d*H:i', $dt, 'Europe/Amsterdam'); return $matchdate->tz('UTC'); }
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