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Mafys Grif
Mafys Grif

Reputation: 577

Laravel carbon parse date

I have a json with date of users. Dates can be format:

"bdate": "25.10",
"bdate": "8.7.1990"
"bdate": "13.10.1984"
"bdate": "7.3"

How I can parse these dates in carbon globally?

When I use:

Carbon::parse($people->bdate)

I get error:

DateTime::__construct(): Failed to parse time string (25.10) at position 0 (2): Unexpected character

Upvotes: 1

Views: 4451

Answers (2)

Sohel0415
Sohel0415

Reputation: 9853

This could be another work around of your problem.

function getBirthDateInCarbon($date){

    $count = substr_count($date,'.');
    if($count==1){
        return \Carbon\Carbon::createFromFormat('d.m', $date);//default year will be current year
    }
    return \Carbon\Carbon::createFromFormat('d.m.Y', $date);
}

Upvotes: 2

Marcus
Marcus

Reputation: 1848

There is probably a more simple solution, tested this and it works

    $date = [null, null, null];
    $data = explode('.', "25.10");

    foreach ($data as $key => $da) {
        $date[$key] = $da;
    }

    $date = Carbon::createFromDate($date[2], $date[1], $date[0]);

Upvotes: 1

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