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How to save into DB a column containing 'ISO8601 strings' as a format in Laravel migration

Is it possible to save a column as ISO8601 format that is not a string type?

Basically, I want to save the date and time as shown below:

2024-11-21T19:30:00.

I tried to use timestamp, so

$table->timestamp('start');

but it saves the data as 2024-11-21 19:30:00, so not as I want.

Is there a way to save it directly or do I have to use string, so $table->string('start') ?

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  1. 0

    One way to go about it is to treat it as a string and call the Carbon object to parse it to ISO8601 format when you need it.

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    Yes, it is possible to save a column as ISO8601 format that is not a string type. You can use the DATE and TIME data types in your database schema to store the date and time values in ISO8601 format.
    Here’s an example of how you can define your table schema to include a start column of type DATE and TIME:

    Schema::create('table_name', function (Blueprint $table) {
    $table->id();
    $table->date('start')->format('Y-m-d H:i:s');
    // other columns...
});

    In the above code, we are using the date function to define the start column as a DATE data type and specifying the format option to set the default format to ISO8601 (Y-m-d H:i:s).
    When you insert data into the start column, it will be automatically converted to ISO8601 format. You can also retrieve the data in ISO8601 format by using the date function to format the date and time values:

    $date = $row->start;
echo $date->format('Y-m-d H:i:s');

    In this example, we are using the format method of the $row->start object to convert the date and time value to ISO8601 format.

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