tl;dr Your date string and your date format is different, you have to change the format string or modify the date string so they match. Explanation The Problem This error arises when Carbon’s createFromFormat function receieves a date string that doesn’t match the passed format string. More precisely this comes from the DateTime::createFromFormat function, because … Read more
I ended up grabbing the total seconds difference using Carbon: $totalDuration = $finishTime->diffInSeconds($startTime); // 21 Then used gmdate: gmdate(‘H:i:s’, $totalDuration); // 00:00:21 If anyone has a better way I’d be interested. Otherwise this works.
First, Eloquent automatically converts it’s timestamps (created_at, updated_at) into carbon objects. You could just use updated_at to get that nice feature, or specify edited_at in your model in the $dates property: protected $dates = [‘edited_at’]; Now back to your actual question. Carbon has a bunch of comparison functions: eq() equals ne() not equals gt() greater … Read more
As of Carbon 1.29 it is possible to do: $period = CarbonPeriod::create(‘2018-06-14’, ‘2018-06-20’); // Iterate over the period foreach ($period as $date) { echo $date->format(‘Y-m-d’); } // Convert the period to an array of dates $dates = $period->toArray(); See documentation for more details: https://carbon.nesbot.com/docs/#api-period.
You are not following the example from the Carbon Documentation. The method Carbon::createFromDate() expects 4 parameters: year, month, day and timezone. And you are trying to pass a formatted date string. If you want to create a Carbon object from a formatted date string you can use the constructor of the class just like this: … Read more