tobya / laravel-mssql-dateformat
Check and set MSSQL universal date format used by Laravel to 'Ymd' to ensure universal compatibility
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Type:laravel-package
Requires
- laravel/framework: ^8.0|^9.0|^10.0|^11.0
README
There is an international date format (ISO standard) (YYYY-MM-DD) Y-m-d that is supposed to be universal, however the MSSQL implementation is flawed
and is NOT universal and incorrectly interprets Y-m-d as Y-d-m which is beyond idiotic.
Laravel uses Y-m-d as their international format, which can lead to errors depending on SQL SERVER Settings.
There is one format Ymd which is absolutely gauranteed to always be interpreted by SQLServer as Ymd. This command patches the file in
illuminate library to use Ymd instead of Y-m-d. I Requested that the change be made in the illuminate library but it was felt the change
was too big to be made.
I hope this is helpful to those of you out there using MSSQL with PHP/Laravel.
Installation
Install with composer
composer require tobya/laravel-mssql-dateformat
To Run
Run by calling the larvel command
artisan mssql:check-universal-date --update
You can run without --update to do the check without patching the file.
Configuration
It is suggested that you add the following to your project composer.json file so this command is automatically run
on install and update.
"scripts": {
"post-update-cmd": [
"@php artisan mssql:check-universal-date --update"
],
"post-install-cmd": [
"@php artisan mssql:check-universal-date --update"
]
}
This is due to the fact that whenever composer update or composer install is run and the illuminate package
is updated it will overwrite the SqlServerGrammar.php with the origional version, so it is necessary to call
the command whenever this has the potential of happening. If no change has been made to the file it will
not be modified.
Further reading on why this is necessary
This is discussed in several places online