How to compare two Carbon Timestamps

Question

I have two timestamps  edited at which I created and created at  Laravel s      In database  both have type timestamp and default value 0000-00-00 00 00 00    But   var dump edited at variable  is giving string  While var dump created at variable  is object Carbon  What is wrong with these timestamps   I have to compare both after converting into integer using format  U    I can only call this method on Carbon Object  How can I do that

User · Answer

Carbon has a bunch of comparison functions with mnemonic names:

equalTo()
notEqualTo()
greaterThan()
greaterThanOrEqualTo()
lessThan()
lessThanOrEqualTo()

Usage:

 if($model->edited_at->greaterThan($model->created_at)){
     // edited at is newer than created at
 }

Valid for nesbot/carbon 1.36.2

if you are not sure what Carbon version you are on, run this

$composer show "nesbot/carbon"

documentation: https://carbon.nesbot.com/docs/#api-comparison

User · Answer

First  Eloquent automatically converts it s timestamps  created at  updated at  into carbon objects  You could just use updated at to get that nice feature  or specify edited at in your model in the  dates property   protected  dates     edited at        Now back to your actual question  Carbon has a bunch of comparison functions    eq   equals ne   not equals gt   greater than gte   greater than or equals lt   less than lte   less than or equals   Usage   if  model- gt edited at- gt gt  model- gt created at           edited at is newer than created at

User · Answer

First  convert the timestamp using the built-in eloquent functionality  as described in this answer   Then you can just use Carbon s min   or max   function for comparison   For example    dt1   Carbon  create 2012  1  1  0  0  0    dt2   Carbon  create 2014  1  30  0  0  0   echo  dt1- gt min  dt2    This will echo the lesser of the two dates  which in this case is  dt1   See http   carbon nesbot com docs

User · Answer

This is how I am comparing 2 dates  now   and a date from the table  if   Carbon Carbon  now  - gt lte  item- gt client- gt event date from                        endif  Should work just right  I have used the comparison functions provided by Carbon

[laravel] How to compare two Carbon Timestamps?

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