Merge pull request #144 from EmilioBravo/add-trait

Add trait to use in eloquent models

composer.json

@@ -19,6 +19,9 @@
         "satooshi/php-coveralls": "~0.6"
     },
     "autoload": {
+        "classmap": [
+            "src/traits"
+        ],
         "psr-0": {
             "Jenssegers\\Date": "src/"
         }

src/traits/EloquentDateHelper.php

@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+<?php namespace Jenssegers\Date\Traits;
+
+use Jenssegers\Date\Date;
+
+/**
+ * This is a trait overwrites methods to
+ * replace Carbon with Date.
+ *
+ * @package Jenssegers\Date
+ */
+
+trait EloquentDateHelper{
+
+    public function freshTimestamp()
+    {
+
+        return new Date();
+    }
+
+    protected function asDateTime($value)
+    {
+
+        if (is_numeric($value)) {
+
+            return Date::createFromTimestamp($value);
+
+        } elseif (preg_match('/^(\d{4})-(\d{2})-(\d{2})$/', $value)) {
+
+            return Date::createFromFormat('Y-m-d', $value)->startOfDay();
+
+        } elseif (! $value instanceof DateTime) {
+            $format = $this->getDateFormat();
+
+            return Date::createFromFormat($format, $value);
+        }
+
+
+        return Date::instance($value);
+    }
+
+}