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Format Datetime fields as Carbon instances.

Installation

Install the module using Composer. This will install Carbon as a child dependency.

composer require daun/datetime-carbon-format

ℹ️ Installation via the module directory will only work if you already have nesbot/carbon required from the project root.

Usage

All Datetime fields will now be formatted as Carbon instances instead of strings. Some examples of how to make use of this:

// $page->date is a Datetime field
// Output format: j/n/Y

echo $page->date;                    // 20/10/2027
echo $page->date->add('7 days');     // 27/10/2027
echo $page->date->format('l, F j');  // Monday, October 20
echo $page->date->year;              // 2027
echo $page->date->diffForHumans();   // 28 minutes ago

Consult the Carbon docs for details.

Notes

Frontend only

The ProcessWire admin expects datetime fields to be strings. That's why this module will only return Carbon instances on normal frontend page views.

Date output format

When casting a Carbon instance to a string (usually when outputting the field in a template), the field's date output format will be respected.

Empty values

Empty date fields will be wrapped in a proxy object that silently "swallows" access to properties and methods without triggering an exception. That's because Carbon instances cannot be empty, i.e. created without a valid timestamp value.

Use either the timestamp property or the isset accessor to see if a date has a value.

// Date field with data
$page->date->timestamp;    // 1778870000
$page->date->isset;        // true
$page->date->year;         // 2027
$page->date->format('j');  // 20

// Empty date field
$page->date->timestamp;    // null
$page->date->isset;        // null
$page->date->year;         // null
$page->date->format('j');  // null

carbon API Variable

The module will create a pre-configured Carbon Factory and wire it into a new carbon API variable. This factory object can be used to create new Carbon instances, edit settings on it, etc.

// Create a new Carbon instance
$datetime = wire()->carbon->createFromTimestamp($timestamp);

Contributing

Pull requests are welcome. Please read the Contributing Guidelines.

License

MIT