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sebastiaanluca/laravel-boolean-dates
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Automatically convert Eloquent model boolean attributes to dates (and back).

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Convert Eloquent boolean attributes to dates (and back)
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**Automatically convert Eloquent model boolean fields to dates (and back to booleans)** so you always know *when* something was accepted or changed.

Say you've got a registration page for users where they need to accept your terms and perhaps can opt-in to certain features using checkboxes. With the GDPR privacy laws, you're somewhat required to not just keep track of the fact *if* they accepted those (or not), but also *when* they did.

### Example

[](#example)

User registration controller:

```
$input = request()->input();

$user = User::create([
    'has_accepted_terms' => $input['terms'],
    'is_subscribed_to_newsletter' => $input['newsletter'],
]);
```

Anywhere else in your code:

```
// true or false (boolean)
$user->has_accepted_terms;

// 2018-05-10 16:24:22 (Carbon instance)
$user->accepted_terms_at;
```

Table of contents
-----------------

[](#table-of-contents)

- [Requirements](#requirements)
- [How to install](#how-to-install)
- [How to use](#how-to-use)
    - [Saving dates](#saving-dates)
    - [Clearing saved values](#clearing-saved-values)
    - [Retrieving values](#retrieving-values)
        - [Retrieving fields as booleans](#retrieving-fields-as-booleans)
        - [Retrieving fields as datetimes](#retrieving-fields-as-datetimes)
    - [Array conversion](#array-conversion)
- [License](#license)
- [Change log](#change-log)
- [Testing](#testing)
- [Contributing](#contributing)
- [Security](#security)
- [Credits](#credits)
- [About](#about)

Requirements
------------

[](#requirements)

- PHP 8.4 or 8.5
- Laravel 11 or 12

How to install
--------------

[](#how-to-install)

**Add the package** to your project using composer:

```
composer require sebastiaanluca/laravel-boolean-dates
```

**Set up your Eloquent model** by:

1. Adding your datetime columns to the `$casts` property or `casts()` method
2. Adding the boolean attributes to `$appends`
3. Creating attribute accessors and mutators for each field

```