How to compare dates in Carbon on Laravel Blade View?

Question

I wish to compare two dates - $dateX (datetime in past) with $currentDatetime (current datetime). For instance: check if $dateX was 7 days ago or not. All should happen in Laravel Blade Engine view by using Carbon.

Can you give some example? Thanks!

What exactly do you want to achieve? For example if $dateX is 7 days ago, what should happen then, what do you want to show? — lewis4u, Dec 14 '17 at 19:46
@lagbox examples from doc was unclear, I wish to see another approach, that is all. — Adam Kozlowski, Dec 14 '17 at 19:50
@lewis4u Then I want to display information that the event took place 7 days ago. — Adam Kozlowski, Dec 14 '17 at 19:53

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 14 '17 at 19:57

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This think can be achieved easily with Carbon, so i'm supposing that both $dateX and $currentDateTime are Carbon instances, accordingly if you wanna check time diff in days simply use diffInDays

for example

if( $currentDateTime->diffInDays( $dateX ) > 7 ){
    // do sonething here
}

in the end i really wanna say that carbon docs are very clear and easy to read

answered Dec 14 '17 at 19:57

Mohammed Manssour

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In fact,if i want to use it in blade it should look like: {{ Carbon\Carbon::today()->diffInDays(Carbon\Carbon::parse($dateX)) }} – Adam Kozlowski Dec 17 '17 at 09:37

lagbox · Answer 2 · 2017-12-14T21:32:35.910

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First get these date times into carbon instances.

@if ($dateX->diffInDays($currentDateTime, false) == 7)
    ...
@endif

Carbon Docs - Difference

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answered Dec 14 '17 at 19:57

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Alexey Mezenin · Answer 3 · 2017-12-14T20:15:04.050

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If you want to know if the date is earlier than a week ago, you could do this:

@if ($dateX < now()->subWeek())

The diffInDays() will work too, but only if all $dateX days are in the past and always will be. The code above is more explicit. Also, what if you'll need to change the logic?

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answered Dec 14 '17 at 20:10

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`diffInDays` take a second argument, for absolute, set it to false and it will return a negative number in that case, which would not equal 7. – lagbox Dec 14 '17 at 20:14

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Dec 14 '17 at 20:01

You can check this with diff. Also check if a date is set before the other.

$date1 = \Carbon\Carbon::create(2017, 10, 10);
$date2 = \Carbon\Carbon::create(2017, 10, 20);

$difference = $date1->diff($date2)->days;
$before = $date1 < $date2;

if (before && $difference < 7) {
    //Date 1 more than 7 days before date 2            
}

How to compare dates in Carbon on Laravel Blade View?

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