Laravel: how to set date format on model attribute casting?

Question

I have in model:

protected $casts = [     'date' => 'date', ]; 

Does laravel have some ability to set cast format, something like:

protected $casts = [     'date' => 'date_format:d/m/yyyy', ]; 

?

EDITED

I tried this:

In model:

protected $dateFormat = 'm/d/Y';  protected $dates = ['driver_expiration', 'created_at', 'updated_at', 'deleted_at'];  protected $casts = [     'driver_expiration'     => 'date', ]; 

I saved date(driver_expiration) as '01/012016' but date is saved 0000-00-00.

laravel documentation: https://laravel.com/docs/5.1/eloquent-mutators Tell us $dateFormat works only for timestamps ('created_at', 'updated_at', 'deleted_at')

Answer 1

After laravel 5.6,

You can individually customize the format of Eloquent date and datetime casting:

protected $casts = [     'birthday'  => 'date:Y-m-d',     'joined_at' => 'datetime:Y-m-d H:00', ]; 

This format is used when the model is serialized to an array or JSON data