change the date format in laravel view page

Question

I want to change the date format which is fetched from database. now I got 2016-10-01{{$user->from_date}} .I want to change the format \'d-m-y\' in laravel

Answer 1

Try this:

date('d-m-Y', strtotime($user->from_date));

It will convert date into d-m-Y or whatever format you have given.

Note: This solution is a general solution that works for php and any of its frameworks. For a Laravel specific method, try the solution provided by Hamelraj.