What's the Best Way to Localise a Date on Laravel

What's the best way to localise a date on Laravel?

Using a library as Laravel-Date you will just need to set the language of the app in the Laravel app config file and use its functions to format the date as you want.

Set the language in /app/config/app.php

'locale' => 'es',

I've found this library pretty useful and clean. To use it, you can write something like the example in the library readme file. I leave the results in spanish.

echo Date::now()->format('l j F Y H:i:s'); // domingo 28 abril 2013 21:58:16

echo Date::parse('-1 day')->diffForHumans(); // 1 día atrás

This is the link to the repository:

https://github.com/jenssegers/laravel-date

To install this library you can follow the instructions detailed in the following link:

https://github.com/jenssegers/laravel-date#installation

Laravel : How to localize dates within views with Carbon

You need to use the php function setlocale before setting the localized format in Carbon.

Unfortunately the base class DateTime does not have any localization support. To begin localization support a formatLocalized($format) method was added. The implementation makes a call to strftime using the current instance timestamp. If you first set the current locale with PHP function setlocale() then the string returned will be formatted in the correct locale.

Examples from the docs:

setlocale(LC_TIME, 'German');
echo $dt->formatLocalized('%A %d %B %Y');          // Mittwoch 21 Mai 1975
setlocale(LC_TIME, '');
echo $dt->formatLocalized('%A %d %B %Y');          // Wednesday 21 May 1975

Localize date format in Laravel

There is a way to do this using Carbon but it seems like it's really going to vary according to the specs of your server and what not. From reading, it seems like locale packages aren't always consistent. Use locale -a on your production server terminal to check which supported locales you have installed. If you need to install one, use sudo locale-gen <NEW LOCALE>.

But once you have your locale strings sorted out, it seems that you can say

$date = new Carbon;

setlocale('en_GB');

echo $date->formatLocalized('%x'); // '16/06/16'

I derived the %x modifier from the strftime() function, it specifies the format to be "the preferred date representation based on locale, without the time" according to the php manual

Laravel localized date formatting (pattern)

Recently I had the same problem with an old Laravel app and we solved it by storing the format of the localised dates in a separate language file:

resources/lang/en/dates.php

return [
    'full' => 'Y-m-d'
];

resources/lang/it/dates.php

return [
    'full' => 'm/d/Y'
];

When formatting a date, just use the config() helper to fetch the format provided for the language set in config/app.php, use $date->format(trans('dates.full')) and it will return the proper localised date.

If you so fancy you can use a macro (which was added in 1.26.0) too, to simplify this process:

Carbon::macro('localisedFormat', function ($key) {
    return $this->format(trans("dates.{$key}"));
});

and access it via

$date->localisedFormat('full');

Laravel localise dates

Have you tried something like this (according to the Documentation), for example in resources/lang/fr/validation.php :

'custom' => [
    'project-begin_at' => [
        'after' => 'Le champ :attribute doit être une date postérieure à hier',
    ]
]

UPDATE :

I don't think you can do what you want because Laravel make a replace of :date with the raw value if strototime(value) != false

You can write something like this for more readability but it's not a tanslation :

public function rules()
{
    return array_merge(parent::rules(), [
        'project-begin_at' => 'date_format:d/m/Y|required|after:' . Carbon::yesterday(),
    ]);
}

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