Your Essential Guide to Carbon Getter Methods in Laravel

Most commonly used Getter methods of Carbon in PHP Laravel

Most commonly user getter methods in carbon - Laravel

In this article we will learn the most commonly used Getter methods of Carbon Datetime in Laravel . As we know Carbon library provides tons of methods to play with date and time , in this article we will only pickup some most commonly used methods to work with datetime in our day to day development life .

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CarbonController.php :

<?php

namespace App\Http\Controllers;

use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use Carbon\Carbon;

class CarbonController extends Controller
{
    public function getterMethods()
    {
    	// Getting current DateTime

    	$date = Carbon::parse(Carbon::now());
    	
    	dd($date); 			// 2021-02-14 03:44:24.681036

    	// Get current year 
    	
    	dd($date->year); 					// 2021 - Type integer
    	
    	// Get Month number of the year
    	
    	dd($date->month);  					// 2 - Type integer
    	
    	// Get day of today's date in integer format
    	
    	dd($date->day);						// 14 - Type integer
    	
    	// Get hour of today's date in integer format
    	
    	dd($date->hour);					// 3 - Type integer
    	
    	// Get minute of today's date in integer format
    	
    	dd($date->minute);					// 54 - Type integer
    	
    	// Get second of today's date in integer format
    	
    	dd($date->second);					// 56 - Type integer
    	
    	// Get day number of the week in integer format 
    	
    	dd($date->dayOfWeek);				// 0 ( sunday ) - Type integer
    	
    	// Get Day of the year
    	
	dd($date->dayOfYear);				// 45 - Type integer
		
	// weekNumberInMonth consider weeks from monday to sunday, so the week 1 will
	// contain 1 day if the month start with a sunday, and up to 7 if it starts with a monday
		
	dd($date->weekNumberInMonth);		// 2 - Type integer
		
	// weekOfMonth will returns 1 for the 7 first days of the month, then 2 from the 8th to
	// the 14th, 3 from the 15th to the 21st, 4 from 22nd to 28th and 5 above
		
	dd($date->weekOfMonth);				// 2 - Type integer
		
	// Get week number of the year
		
	dd($date->weekOfYear);				// 6 - Type integer
		
	// Get number of days available in this month
		
	dd($date->daysInMonth);				// 28 ( february ) - Type integer
		
	// Convert date time to timestamp
		
	dd($date->timestamp);				// 1613275143 - Type integer

    }
}