horat1us / yii2-carbon-behavior

1.4.0 2026-10-25 19:25 UTC

Requires

• php: >=8.4
• nesbot/carbon: ^2.0 | ^3.0
• yiisoft/yii2: ^2.0.53

Requires (Dev)

• horat1us/yii2-asset-free: ^1.0.1
• phpunit/phpunit: ^13.4
• squizlabs/php_codesniffer: ^4.0

MIT

• Alexander Letnikow

Published on Packagist.org on 2026-10-25 19:34 UTC

README

Behavior to generate timestamps (created_at, updated_at etc.) using Carbon instance.

Main purpose of using Carbon (instead of native time() function, implemented in \yii\behaviors\TimestampBehavior) is ability to mock this values without tricks (using Carbon::setTestNow()).

Used in real projects with MySQL and PostgreSQL.

Compatibility: tested on PHP 8.4, PHP 8.5

Installation

Using packagist.org:

composer require horat1us/yii2-carbon-behavior:^1.3

Usage

To generate timestamps using Carbon

<?php

namespace App;

use Horat1us\Yii\CarbonBehavior;
use yii\db;

/**
* Class Record
 * @package App
 * 
 * @property string $created_at [timestamp]
 * @property string $updated_at [timestamp]
 */
class Record extends db\ActiveRecord
{
    public function behaviors(): array {
        return [
            'uuid' => [
                'class' => CarbonBehavior::class,    
            ],    
        ];
    }
}

in followed example created_at and updated_at attributes will be filled with date and time generated using Carbon class.

License

MIT