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Laravel date cast

Hello Every I want to use Laravel default casts feature, where if I access created_at property of a post model. I would like the following output from the following code:

Code:

$timepassed = $post->created_at;

Desired Output:

2 hours ago

The laravel document provides only one example of casts for date which is :

protected $casts = [
'created_at' => 'datetime:Y-m-d',
];

So when I access $post->created_at, the above casts will output "2023-06-20".

My question is what should I use instead of ‘datetime:Y-m-d’ to get output like: "2 hours ago"

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  1. 0

    One approach would be to make use of the accessor instead of using casts.

    <?php

namespace AppModels;

use IlluminateDatabaseEloquentModel;

class Post extends Model
{
    /**
     * Get the created at value.
     *
     * @param  Carbon  $value
     * @return string
     */
    public function getCreatedAtAttribute($value)
    {
        return $value->diffForHumans();
    }
}
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  2. 0

    Use the Carbon library.

    composer require nesbot/carbon

    Model

    use IlluminateSupportCarbon;

class Post extends Model
{
    // ...

    public function getCreatedAtAttribute($value)
    {
        return Carbon::parse($value)->diffForHumans();
    }
}
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