Carbon::now() - only month
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I couldn't find anywhere in documentation how to show current year or month with Carbon?
when i write this:
Carbon\Carbon::now('m');
it gives me the whole time stamp, but I just need the month
like
date('m');
but it must be Carbon!
How can I achieve this?
Php Solutions
Solution 1 - Php
$now = Carbon::now();
echo $now->year;
echo $now->month;
echo $now->weekOfYear;
Update:
even this works since Laravel 5.5^
echo now()->month
Solution 2 - Php
I think you've already worked this out in a comment, but just for clarity: Carbon extends PHP's native DateTime class, so you can use any of the methods available on that, like format:
Carbon::now()->format('M');
(where M is the modifier for A short textual representation of a month, three letters)
Solution 3 - Php
You can use these both ways to get the current month
Carbon::now()->month;
or
Carbon::now()->format('m');
Solution 4 - Php
Just use this in your any blade file for print year:
{{ \Carbon\Carbon::now()->year }}
Solution 5 - Php
I wanted to get the current month and got to this question, to get the current month:
$now = Carbon::now();
$monthStart = $now->startOfMonth();
Solution 6 - Php
w/ Carbon + Laravel:
now()->format('M')
Solution 7 - Php
Laravel 8
return date('m');
or
return now()->format('m');
Solution 8 - Php
use Carbon\Carbon;
$today= Carbon::now();
echo $today->year;
echo $today->month;
echo $today->day;
echo $today->hour;
echo $today->minute;
echo $today->second;
Solution 9 - Php
You cant call it statically use
$now = Carbon::now();
echo $now->month