Laravel 5 if statement between Carbon diffForHumans and toFormattedDatesString

Question

I want to write an if statement to show timestamp in diffForHumans format for timestamps less than less than 5 days old and in toFormattedDatesString for anything older than that.

For example today is 31/10/17, so timestamp for 28/10/2017 should show - 3 days ago and timestamp for 20/10/2017 should show Oct 20, 2017.

What logic should I use to achieve this?

Answer 1

In your Model e.g A.php, create an accessor like this,

public function getCreatedAtAttribute(){
    if($this->created_at->diffInDays(Carbon::now()) > 5){
       return $this->created_at->toFormattedDateString();
    }else{
       return $this->created_at->diffForHumans();
    }
}

and in your view you can access it as

{!! $a->created_at !!}