I have a pivot table ('offer_usage_detail') in my app, table having 4 field as below
id int AutoIncrement
user_id int reference to user table
offer_id int reference to offer table
use_date date-time Store date time when user use offer
I need to show list of user who used offer with date and time in d-m-Y H:i format.
So i added below code in my offer model
public function user() {
return $this->belongsToMany('User', 'offer_usage_detail', 'offer_id', 'user_id')->withPivot('use_time');
}
Currently i m using core php's date function with strtotime to format date time, But i want to know is there any way to convert Pivot tables date time fields to carbon object.
I tried putting use_time field in Offer Model's protected $dates = array('created_at','use_time'); but it didn't worked.
Is it possible to convert extra pivot table column to carbon object if column is date time field?
The best solution I would suggest is creating custom pivot model for this relation:
// Offer model (the same goes for the User model, but change to 'instanceof Offer`
public function newPivot(Eloquent $parent, array $attributes, $table, $exists)
{
if ($parent instanceof User) return new OfferUserPivot($parent, $attributes, $table, $exists);
return parent::newPivot($parent, $attributes, $table, $exists);
}
// OfferUserPivot
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Relations\Pivot;
class OfferUserPivot extends Pivot {
// override either property:
protected $dates = ['use_time'];
// or method:
// public function getDates()
// {
// return ['use_time']; // and other columns like created_at etc if you like
// }
}
// Then you can do this:
$user->offers->first()->pivot->useTime; // Carbon object
$offer->users->first()->pivot->useTime; // Carbon object
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