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RayD
RayD

Reputation: 47

how to change years to months using carbon?

I just started using Carbon, I was able to make the program work in computing the years from the given date. But now I want to make the format counting the months, this is my code:

public function getAgeAttribute() {   
    return Carbon::parse($this->attributes['emp_birth_date'])->age;
}

I tried using the code:

->format('months');

but got an error I don't know where make it work. Can anyone help me?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1365

Answers (1)

Tim Lewis
Tim Lewis

Reputation: 29278

There isn't a built-in method for getting age in Months, but it should be pretty simple to solve:

$ageInYears = \Carbon\Carbon::parse($birthday)->age;
$ageInMonths = $ageInYears * 12;

This isn't perfect, as age is not returned as a decimal, so 10 years could be anywhere between 120 and 131 months.

If you want something more accurate, you can use diffInMonths like so:

$ageInMonths = \Carbon\Carbon::now()->diffInMonths(\Carbon\Carbon::parse($birthday));

Also, ->format("months"); is invalid, as "months" is not a valid PHP date format. Also also, ->format("m") (which is the correct value) wouldn't work on ->age, as ->age returns an int, not a Carbon date.

See http://php.net/manual/en/function.date.php for all the available PHP date formatting options.

Upvotes: 3

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