Implement Carbon

composer.json

@@ -18,7 +18,8 @@
         "twig/twig": "^2.11",
         "gone.io/twig-extension-transform": "^1.0",
         "gone.io/twig-extension-inflection": "^1.0",
-        "gone.io/uuid": "^2.3"
+        "gone.io/uuid": "^2.3",
+        "nesbot/carbon": "^2.0"
     },
     "require-dev": {
         "benzine/core": "dev-master",

src/Components/Column.php

@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ namespace Benzine\ORM\Components;
 
 use Benzine\ORM\Exception\DBTypeNotTranslatedException;
 use Benzine\ORM\Laminator;
+use Carbon\Carbon as DateTime;
 
 class Column extends Entity
 {
@@ -303,7 +304,7 @@ class Column extends Entity
                 break;
             case 'timestamp':   // MySQL
             case 'datetime':    // MySQL
-                $this->setPhpType('\\'.\DateTime::class);
+                $this->setPhpType('\\'.DateTime::class);
 
                 break;
             default:

src/Generator/templates/Models/basemodel.php.twig

@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ use Psr\Container\NotFoundExceptionInterface;
 use Benzine\ORM\Abstracts\Model as AbstractModel;
 use Benzine\ORM\Interfaces\ModelInterface as ModelInterface;
 use Benzine\App as App;
+use Carbon\Carbon as DateTime;
 
 {% include '_overwrite_warning.twig' %}
 {% set existingMethods = [] %}
@@ -404,7 +405,7 @@ abstract class Base{{ class_name }}Model extends AbstractModel implements ModelI
 {% if column.getDbType == 'timestamp' %}
             ->set{{ column.getPropertyFunction }}(
                 ${{ column.getDbField() }} !== null
-                    ? \DateTime::createFromFormat("Y-m-d H:i:s", ${{ column.getDbField() }})
+                    ? DateTime::createFromFormat("Y-m-d H:i:s", ${{ column.getDbField() }})
                     : null
             )
 {% else %}

test/app/tests/Models/DateTimeFieldsTest.php

@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ use Benzine\ORM\Tests\Models\UsersModel;
 use Benzine\ORM\Tests\Services\UsersService;
 use Benzine\ORM\Tests\TableGateways;
 use Benzine\ORM\Tests\TableGateways\UsersTableGateway;
+use Carbon\Carbon;
 use Gone\UUID\UUID;
 use Benzine\Tests\BaseTestCase;
 
@@ -43,7 +44,7 @@ class DateTimeFieldsTest extends BaseTestCase
         $user->setName("Matthew Baggett");
         $user->setEmail("matthew@baggett.me");
 
-        $dateTime = new \DateTime();
+        $dateTime = new Carbon();
         $dateTime->setDate(1990, 06,01);
         $dateTime->setTime(04,00,00);
         $user->setCreated($dateTime);