Inside my blade edit form, I have this:
<input type="text" name="birth" class="form-control" id="birth" value="{{ \Carbon\Carbon::parse($associado->birth)->format('d/m/Y') }}">
The problem is: if $associado->birth is NULL in database, Carbon is returning current date.
What can I do to avoid that?
You would need to check if the value is null.
Furthermore, you could add birth to the $dates array property in your eloquent model.
protected $dates = [
'dates'
];
This will tell the eloquent model to cast this column to a Carbon instance like it does for created_at and updated_at. If the column if null it will simply return null.
Your code would then look something like:
{{ $associado->birth ? $associado->birth->format('d/m/Y') : null }}
Hope this helps!
Check if $associado->birth is NULL before parsing it with Carbon.
If it has a true value, it is not NULL and you can parse it - otherwise just return set null in your value.
Here is an example using the ternary operator
value="{{ $associado->birth ? \Carbon\Carbon::parse($associado->birth)->format('d/m/Y') : null}}
Then again, when using this much logic, it should be put inside it's own function.
You can do it with createFromFormat() of Carbon.
value = "{{$associado->birth ? \Carbon\Carbon::createFromFormat('d\m\Y',
$associado->birth)->toDateString() : null}}"
This will check string value of date stored in database and give empty in case of Null value.
Hope you understand.