A collection of things that can be done to make handling dates in Laravel much easier (if you deal with date formats that are not english)

.Laravel Date Utils

A collection of things that can be done to make handling dates in Laravel much easier (if you deal with date formats that are not english)

AfterOrEqualsValidator.php

<?php


namespace App\Validators;


use Carbon\Carbon;
use Illuminate\Validation\Validator;
use ReflectionMethod;

class AfterOrEqualsValidator
{
    public function getDateFormat(Validator $validator, $attribute){
        /**
         * O Validator não expoe o formato de data que deve ser usado.
         * Logo, uso reflection para obter isso
         */
        $method = new ReflectionMethod(Validator::class, 'getDateFormat');
        $method->setAccessible(true);
        return $method->invoke($validator, $attribute);
    }

    public function validate($attribute, $value, $parameters, Validator $validator) {
        $data = $validator->getData();

        $otherField = $data[$parameters[0]];

        $format = $this->getDateFormat($validator, $attribute);
        if($format){
            return Carbon::createFromFormat($format, $value)->gte(Carbon::createFromFormat($format, $otherField));
        } else {
            return strtotime($value) >= strtotime($otherField);
        }
    }
}

AppServiceProvider.php

<?php

namespace App\Providers;

use Carbon\Carbon;
use Illuminate\Support\ServiceProvider;

class AppServiceProvider extends ServiceProvider
{
    /**
     * Bootstrap any application services.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function boot()
    {
      // Facilita muito, pois não precisa chamar format toda hora nas views
      Carbon::setToStringFormat(config('custom.nativeDateFormat'));
    }

    /**
     * Register any application services.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function register()
    {
        //
    }
}

custom.php

<?php

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

Request.php

<?php

namespace App\Http\Requests;

use Carbon\Carbon;
use Illuminate\Foundation\Http\FormRequest;

abstract class Request extends FormRequest
{
    // É usado no método abaixo e pode ser usado no data_format por exemplo,
    // nas regras de validação.
    public function getDateFormat(){
        return config('custom.nativeDateFormat');
    }

    /**
     * Facilita pegar datas em formato nativo (Ex: d/m/Y) da view, sem precisa converter toda hora
     * @param $attribute
     * @param null $default
     * @return \Carbon\Carbon
     */
    public function getDate($attribute, $default = null){
        $value = $this->get($attribute);
        return $value ? Carbon::createFromFormat($this->getDateFormat(), $value) : $default;
    }
}