title: Laravel Presenters
body: <p>I'm curious to know if I need the <code>null</code> at the end of the presenter return statement since <code>old()</code> will return null if a value isn't found.</p>
  
  <p><strong>Event Form</strong></p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;input type="date" data-plugin="datetimepicker" class="form-control" id="date" name="date" value="{{ old('date') ?? $event-&gt;formatted_form_date }}"/&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p><strong>Presenter</strong></p>
  
  <pre><code>public function formattedFormDate()
  {
      return $this-&gt;model-&gt;date ? $this-&gt;model-&gt;date-&gt;format('m/d/Y') : null;
  }
  </code></pre>