How do I change the date format Laravel outputs to JSON?

Question

I\'ve built an application in Laravel and eloquent returns dates in this format: 2015-04-17 00:00:00. I\'m sending one particular query to JSON so I can make a

Answer 1

I know it's an old question, but there is still no good answer to that. Changing protected $dateFormat will affect database, instead method serializeDate() must be overriden

class MyModel extends Eloquent {
    protected function serializeDate(\DateTimeInterface $date) {
        return $date->getTimestamp();
    }
}

Or myself I chose to create trait

trait UnixTimestampSerializable
{
    protected function serializeDate(\DateTimeInterface $date)
    {
        return $date->getTimestamp();
    }
}

and then add

class SomeClassWithDates extends Model {    
    use UnixTimestampSerializable;

    ...
}