How to make a Trait in Laravel

Well, laravel follows PSR-4 so you should place your traits in:

app/Traits

You then need to make sure you namespace your trait with that path, so place:

namespace App\Traits;

At the top of your trait

Then make sure when you save the file, the file name matches the trait name. So, if your trait is called FormatDates you need to save the file as FormatDates.php

Then ‘use’ it in your User model by adding:

use App\Traits\FormatDates;

at the top of your model, but below your namespace

and then add:

use FormatDates;

just inside the class, so for your User model, assuming you are using the laravel default, you would get:

use App\Traits\FormatDates;

class User extends Authenticatable
{
    use Notifiable, FormatDates;

...
}

And remember to dump the autoloader:

composer dump-autoload