Standardize Data Formats in Your Laravel Application

Laravel Formatters is a package by Michael Rubel that provides a collection of classes you can use to standardize data formats in your Laravel application:

 1use MichaelRubel\Formatters\Collection\DateFormatter;
 2use MichaelRubel\Formatters\Collection\DateTimeFormatter;
 3use MichaelRubel\Formatters\Collection\LocaleNumberFormatter;
 4use MichaelRubel\Formatters\Collection\TableColumnFormatter;
 5 
 6 
 7format(DateFormatter::class, now())
 8// "2021-11-09"
 9 
10format(DateTimeFormatter::class, now())
11// "2021-11-09 02:28"
12 
13format(LocaleNumberFormatter::class, 1)
14// "1.00"
15 
16config()->set('app.locale', 'es');
17format(LocaleNumberFormatter::class, 1);
18// "1,00"
19 
20format(TableColumnFormatter::class, 'created_at')
21// "Created at"

If you want to extend a built-in formatter provided by this package, you can extend the service provider definition to override it:

1use MichaelRubel\Formatters\Collection\DateTimeFormatter;
2 
3$this->app->extend(DateTimeFormatter::class, function ($formatter) {
4    $formatter->datetime_format = 'Y.m.d H:i';
5 
6    return $formatter;
7});

You can learn more about this package, get full installation instructions, and view the source code on GitHub.