printf("Right now is %s", Carbon::now()->toDateTimeString());
printf("Right now in Vancouver is %s", Carbon::now('America/Vancouver')); //implicit __toString()
$tomorrow = Carbon::now()->addDay();
$lastWeek = Carbon::now()->subWeek();
$nextSummerOlympics = Carbon::createFromDate(2012)->addYears(4);
$officialDate = Carbon::now()->toRfc2822String();
$howOldAmI = Carbon::createFromDate(1975, 5, 21)->age;
$noonTodayLondonTime = Carbon::createFromTime(12, 0, 0, 'Europe/London');
$worldWillEnd = Carbon::createFromDate(2012, 12, 21, 'GMT');
// Don't really want to die so mock now
Carbon::setTestNow(Carbon::createFromDate(2000, 1, 1));
// comparisons are always done in UTC
if (Carbon::now()->gte($worldWillEnd)) {
die();
}
// Phew! Return to normal behaviour
Carbon::setTestNow();
if (Carbon::now()->isWeekend()) {
echo 'Party!';
}
echo Carbon::now()->subMinutes(2)->diffForHumans(); // '2 minutes ago'
// ... but also does 'from now', 'after' and 'before'
// rolling up to seconds, minutes, hours, days, months, years
CarbonInterval::setLocale('fr');
echo CarbonInterval::years(2)->minutes(2); // '2 ans 2 minutes'
$daysSinceEpoch = Carbon::createFromTimestamp(0)->diffInDays();
1.x is compatible with PHP 5.3+.
A 2.x version is in the works and will require PHP 5.4+.
The easiest and recommended method to install Carbon is via composer.
Use the following command to install with composer.
$ composer require nesbot/carbon
This will automatically get the latest version and configure a composer.json
file.
<?php
require 'vendor/autoload.php';
use Carbon\Carbon;
printf("Now: %s", Carbon::now());
If you wish you can create the following composer.json
file and run composer install
to install it.
{
"require": {
"nesbot/carbon": "~1.18"
}
}
Why are you not using composer?
Download Carbon.php from the repo and save the file into your project path somewhere.
<?php
require 'path/to/Carbon.php';
use Carbon\Carbon;
printf("Now: %s", Carbon::now());
If you want to use diffForHumans()
with this install mode, you will also need to download and load symfony/translation and its owns dependencies. But if you do, you should really consider using composer instead.
Carbon is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE
file for details.
Read about Carbon Dating.