Inserting Date Value into Date Field using Laravel - mysql

Question

At the moment, I have a date field on a form that I would like to be able to insert the current value of the current record being edited. No records are missing this date field in my MySQL database, but for some reason, the value of the record will not actually load into the field input, it does however load into the "value" portion of the input field.
At the moment here is my field's code:
<input type="date" name="date" id="date" class="form-control" style="width: 100%; display: inline;" onchange="invoicedue(event);" required value="{{$shipment->date}}">
And here is the code output:
<input name="date" id="date" class="form-control" style="width: 100%; display: inline;" onchange="invoicedue(event);" required="" value="2018-05-10 00:00:00" type="date">
But this is what it looks like in my browser:
But in my MySQL database table, the field (which is a date field) is formatted as following: 2018-05-12

Answer 1

When using <input type="date">, the value will need to be formatted in ISO 8601 date format: YYYY-MM-DD
Try mutating your $shipment->date value by appending ->format('Y-m-d') and it should match the expected format.
Give this a shot:
<input
...
value="{{ $shipment->date->format('Y-m-d') }}"
...
>
You can learn a bit more about it here:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/input/date
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601

Answer 2

For dates you can use mutators in laravel check Documentations
Then you can do something like this:
class Shipment extends Model {
protected $dates = ['date'];
}
Then you can simply write
<input type="date" name="date" id="date" class="form-control" style="width: 100%; display: inline;" onchange="invoicedue(event);" required value="{{$shipment->date->format('m/d/Y')}}">
If you don't want to use laravels date mutator, you can use your own something like this:
class Shipment extends Model
{
/**
* Set the date attribute.
*
* #param string $value
* #return void
*/
public function setDateAttribute($value)
{
$this->attributes['date'] = Carbon::parse($value)->format('m/d/Y');
}
}
Hope this helps.

Answer 3

Laravel makes use of carbon and makes tasks like this an absolute walk in the park. Post your date value to your controller like normal, the input you're using is fine.
Then simply format with Carbon
$formattedDate = Carbon::parse($request->date)->format('Y-m-s');
You now have yourself a date in the format 2018-05-13 which is the correct format for sql
You should take a read of the Carbon documentation it can do some great things.
Check it out here https://carbon.nesbot.com/docs/