Parse string date with carbon (Laravel/Php)

Question

I get the date data as string from Google Analytics like following:

"20190809"

How can I do format with carbon like this:

"2019-08-09"

Answer 1

You can use Carbon::createFromFormat() to parse a date from an unusual format to a Carbon instance. Then you can format it however you like.

In your case, the following should work:

$date = Carbon::createFromFormat('Ymd','20190809')->format('Y-m-d');