Dates and Times in PHP with Carbon.php

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Lecture 1
Introduction
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Introduction
Struggling with dates and times in PHP? We have you covered in this series, where we look at Carbon, a popular and essential library for working with PHP dates and times.



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Lecture 2
Installing Carbon
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Installing Carbon
Let's install Carbon. We look at using Composer (recommended) and also copying over files if you don't want to use Composer.



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Lecture 3
Creating
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Creating
Creating dates and times in PHP, including the current, and specific dates.



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Lecture 4
Formatting
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Formatting
Outputting dates and times is essential, so here we look at a few methods we can use to display them. This includes custom date and time formatting, and also human readable dates (e.g. 2 days ago).



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Lecture 5
Getters
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Getters
An easier way to get parts of a date, is to use getters. Getters in Carbon also provide us values like 'age', the age of a date compared to the current. Super useful!



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Lecture 6
Setters
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Setters
Setting specific parts of a date. This provides greater flexability when modifying dates and times.



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Lecture 7
Timezones
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Timezones
Timezones are a massive pain, usually. Carbon allows us to easily set timezones for any dates and times we work with, making it easier to grab a timezone from configuration (or elsewhere) and apply it to a date/time.



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Lecture 8
Manipulating
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Manipulating
Easily add and subtract days, weeks, months and more with super simple methods.



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Lecture 9
Comparisons
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Comparisons
If you need to compare dates, Carbon has you covered. It's really easy to check if dates are greater than, less than, etc., including useful methods like 'between' to check if a date is between two others.



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Lecture 10
Differences
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Differences
Getting the differences between two dates can be really useful, and once again Carbon makes this a breeze.



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Lecture 11
Modifiers
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Modifiers
Modifiers let us modify the date/time, like getting the end of the day, start of the week or even the date/time for the next day of a week.



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Lecture 12
Copying
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Copying
The ability to copy Carbon objects is essential, meaning you can make use of all of the functionality we've already learned without getting into a mess.



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Lecture 13
Real-life Example
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Real-life Example
A real-life example of using Carbon to give you a Carbon instance from your database instead of a date/time string.

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