Carbon - Getting only part of a TimeStamp

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I have a timestamp in my database: 2017-10-01 04:32:37

Now, I need to grab only the date, so like "01/10"

I'm trying to do this with Laravel's Carbon library, can anyone tell me how? I can't find anything to do with this in the documentation, it seems unheard of?

I want to do this with Carbon

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4 Answers

Its been a long time since I used PHP and Laravel so I may be wrong. But you can use $carbon->format("format string") to make any string you want out of your carbon instances

My guess you can do something like:

Carbon::now()->format("d/m");
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field created_at and updated_at returned as Carbon object, you can directly format that attributes like this

$user = App\User::find(1);
// created at value
// 2017-12-20 06:30:25
$user->created_at->format('d/m');
// will return
// 20/12

or if you have custom date attributes you can use Carbon::parse() methods like this

$approvedAt = '2017-10-02 05:30:00';
$initDate = Carbon::parse($approvedAt);
$approvedAtFormated = $initDate->format('d/m');
// will return
// 02/10
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you can use format

$re=  Carbon::createFromFormat('Y-m-d H:i:s','2017-10-01 04:32:37')->format('d/m');
 dd($re);

output

   "01/10"

Also you can use

 $updated_at=Carbon::parse( '2017-10-01 04:32:37')->format('d/m');;
      dd($updated_at);

output

"01/10"

If you are converting updated_at and created_at then you directly format datetime using carbon

for example

$blogTag=Tag::retrieveTagById(1);
dd($blogTag->created_at->format('d/m'));

Output will be

"01/10"
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As described in the "String Formatting" section of the Carbon docs, we can use the format() method to produce any format that PHP understands: 

Carbon::parse('2017-10-01 04:32:37')->format('d/m');
// "01/10"

Carbon supports the same format notations as PHP's strtotime() function and DateTime class.

Laravel automatically converts any Eloquent model attributes declared in a model's $dates or $casts arrays to Carbon instances. This lets us use Carbon-specific functionality without the need to manually parse the date into Carbon: 

$user->created_at->format('d/m');
$user->last_login->format('d/m');
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