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Andre
Andre

Reputation: 849

Check if a date is equal to other date using Laravel 5.3

I am trying to check if one date is equal than the other date, but I can't get the match because the date format coming from the form turns into a different order once it gets through the "parse" code. I need to format this date to find the match, here is a sample code to show how I am trying:

 ...

 // $ago will give me this date: 2016-12-09 00:00:00
 $ago = Carbon\Carbon::today()->addDays(2); // Todays date + 2 days

 //$request->datex has the date coming from a form with this format, '12-06-2016'.

 // Once a parse $request->datex here, the date gets out of order:
 $my_date = Carbon\Carbon::parse($request->datex);
 // it shows the date like this, 2016-09-12 00:00:00 , I need it to be on this format: 2016-12-09 00:00:00

 // then I could do this:

 if ( $ago$ == $my_date ) {

  dd($my_date.' is equal to: '.$ago );

 }else{

  dd(' Not equal!');

 }
 ...

Thanks for looking!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 911

Answers (2)

piotr
piotr

Reputation: 1282

Change this line 

$my_date = Carbon\Carbon::parse($request->datex);

with this:

$my_date = Carbon::createFromFormat('m-d-Y', $request->datex)

I've assumed that your format '12-06-2016' means DAY-MONTH-YEAR

UPDATE Tested my solution on my machine and it works, date is recognized properly: When 

$request->datex = '12-06-2016'

then 

$my_date = \Carbon\Carbon::createFromFormat('m-d-Y', $datex);

gives me date like that: public 'date' => string '2016-12-06 18:52:09.000000' (length=26)

Date has been parsed properly. The thing that I've assumed just now. These dates won't be same cause of hours, minutes, seconds and milliseconds. To fix that just we have to compare dates that way:

if ( $ago->format('Y-m-d') == $my_date->format('Y-m-d') )
    //do something awesome with our equal dates

Upvotes: 1

Devon Bessemer
Devon Bessemer

Reputation: 35377

PHP expects DD-MM-YYYY or MM/DD/YYYY formats.

If you always have a MM-DD-YYYY format, you could do this before parsing:

$request->datex = str_replace('-', '/', $request->datex);

Upvotes: 0

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