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seoservice2020/laravel-timezone
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Timezone storage and retrieval for Laravel

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Laravel Timezone
================

[](#laravel-timezone)

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An easy way to set a timezone for a user in your application and then show date/times to them in their local timezone.

How does it work
----------------

[](#how-does-it-work)

This package listens for the `\Illuminate\Auth\Events\Login` event and will then automatically set a `timezone` on your `user` model (stored in the database). It decides whether to update user timezone or not according to user `detect_timezone` attribute, or, if not set, according to default value in config. For non-authorized routes, where auth user info is not accessible, package will use default timezone from its config.

This package uses the [torann/geoip](http://lyften.com/projects/laravel-geoip/doc/) package which looks up the users location based on their IP address. The package also returns information like the users currency and users timezone. [You can configure this package separately if you require](#custom-configuration).

How to use
----------

[](#how-to-use)

You can show dates to your user in their timezone by using

```
{{ Timezone::convertToLocal($post->created_at) }}
```

Or use our nice blade directive

```
@displayDate($post->created_at)
```

[More examples below](#examples)

Installation
------------

[](#installation)

### Pull in the package using Composer

[](#pull-in-the-package-using-composer)

```
composer require seoservice2020/laravel-timezone
```

### Default timezone attributes location

[](#default-timezone-attributes-location)

By default, timezone attributes placed into `users` table. If you wish to use package with this default, see instructions below.

#### Publish database migrations

[](#publish-database-migrations)

```
php artisan vendor:publish --provider="SEOService2020\Timezone\TimezoneServiceProvider" --tag=migrations
```

Run the database migrations. This will add `timezone` and `detect_timezone` columns to your `users` table. Note that migration will be placed to default Laravel migrations folder, so if you use custom folder, you should move migration file to appropriate location.

```
php artisan migrate
```

#### Update User model

[](#update-user-model)

Add `SEOService2020\Timezone\Traits\HasTimezone` trait to your `user` model:

```
use HasTimezone;
```

If you wish to work with `detect_timezone` attribute directly, you can add boolean cast for your `User` model:

```
protected $casts = [
  'detect_timezone' => 'boolean',
];
```

If you wish to set per-user timezone overwriting at user creation time, you can add `detect_timezone` attribute to your `User` model fillable property:

```
protected $fillable = [
    'detect_timezone',
    ];
```

### Custom timezone attributes location

[](#custom-timezone-attributes-location)

If you wish to use different location for `timezone` and `detect_timezone` attributes, e.g. `Profile` model, you should override `HasTimezone` trait and use overriden one in your `User` model.

Examples
--------

[](#examples)

### Showing date/time to the user in their timezone

[](#showing-datetime-to-the-user-in-their-timezone)

Default will use the format `jS F Y g:i:a` and will not show the timezone

```
{{ Timezone::convertToLocal($post->created_at) }}

// 4th July 2018 3:32:am
```

If you wish you can set a custom format and also include a nice version of the timezone

```
{{ Timezone::convertToLocal($post->created_at, 'Y-m-d g:i', true) }}

// 2018-07-04 3:32 New York, America
```

If you wish to further work with converted Carbon instance, you can use toLocal method:

```
{{ Timezone::toLocal($post->created_at)->diffForHumans() }}

// diff calculated relative to datetime with user-end timezone
```

### Using blade directive

[](#using-blade-directive)

Making your life easier one small step at a time

```
@displayDate($post->created_at)

// 4th July 2018 3:32:am
```

And with custom formatting

```
@displayDate($post->created_at, 'Y-m-d g:i', true)

// 2018-07-04 3:32 New York, America
```

### Saving the users input to the database in UTC

[](#saving-the-users-input-to-the-database-in-utc)

This will take a date/time, set it to the users timezone then return it as UTC in a Carbon instance.

```
$post = Post::create([
    'publish_at' => Timezone::convertFromLocal($request->get('publish_at')),
    'description' => $request->input('description'),
]);
```

Custom Configuration
--------------------

[](#custom-configuration)

Publishing the config file is optional.

```
php artisan vendor:publish --provider="SEOService2020\Timezone\TimezoneServiceProvider" --tag=config
```

### Flash Messages

[](#flash-messages)

When the timezone has been set, we display a flash message, By default, is configured to use Laravel default flash messaging, here are some of the optional integrations.

[laracasts/flash](https://github.com/laracasts/flash) - `'flash' => 'laracasts'`

[mercuryseries/flashy](https://github.com/mercuryseries/flashy) - `'flash' => 'mercuryseries'`

[spatie/laravel-flash](https://github.com/spatie/laravel-flash) - `'flash' => 'spatie'`

[mckenziearts/laravel-notify](https://github.com/mckenziearts/laravel-notify) - `'flash' => 'mckenziearts'`

To override this configuration, you just need to change the `flash` property inside the configuration file `config/timezone.php` for the desired package. You can disable flash messages by setting `'flash' => 'off'`.

### Overwrite existing timezones in the database

[](#overwrite-existing-timezones-in-the-database)

User timezone will be overwritten at each login with the current user timezone if `detect_timezone` is set to true for this user. If this attribute is not set, by default, the timezone will be overwritten. This behavior can be restricted to only update the timezone if it is blank by setting the `'overwrite' => false,` config option.

### Default Format

[](#default-format)

By default, the date format will be `jS F Y g:i:a`. To override this configuration, you just need to change the `format` property inside the configuration file `config/timezone.php` for the desired format.

### Lookup Array

[](#lookup-array)

This lookup array configuration makes it possible to find the remote address of the user in any attribute inside the Laravel `request` helper, by any key. Having in mind when the key is found inside the attribute, that key will be used. By default, we use the `server` attribute with the key `REMOTE_ADDR`. To override this configuration, you just need to change the `lookup` property inside the configuration file `config/timezone.php` for the desired lookup.

### Underlying GeoIp Package

[](#underlying-geoip-package)

If you wish to customise the underlying `torann/geoip` package you can publish the config file by using the command below.

```
php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Torann\GeoIP\GeoIPServiceProvider" --tag=config
```

Changelog
---------

[](#changelog)

Please see [CHANGELOG](CHANGELOG.md) for more information what has changed recently.

Contributing
------------

[](#contributing)

Please see [CONTRIBUTING](CONTRIBUTING.md) for details.

License
-------

[](#license)

This package is 100% free and open-source, under the MIT license. Use it however you want.

This package is [Treeware](https://treeware.earth). If you use it in production, then we ask that you [**buy the world a tree**](https://plant.treeware.earth/seoservice2020/laravel-timezone) to thank us for our work. By contributing to the Treeware forest you’ll be creating employment for local families and restoring wildlife habitats.

Issues
------

[](#issues)

If you receive a message like `This cache store does not support tagging` this is because the `torann/geoip` package requires a caching driver which supports tagging and you probably have your application set to use the `file` cache driver. You can [publish the config file](#custom-configuration) for the `torann/geoip` package and set `'cache_tags' => null,` to solve this. [Read more about this issue here](https://github.com/seoservice2020/laravel-timezone/issues/4#issuecomment-494648925).

###  Health Score

31

—

LowBetter than 68% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity6

Limited adoption so far

Community13

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity73

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 56.5% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~48 days

Recently: every ~113 days

Total

23

Last Release

1773d ago

Major Versions

1.9.3 → 2.0.02021-04-09

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1.8.1PHP >=7.1

2.0.0PHP >=7.4

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