Some custom date helpers for Laravel 4.
These helpers use the Carbon Date functions that are included with Laravel 4, but put into easier helper functions.
Place the customhelpers.php file into your app folder.
Add require app_path().'/customhelpers.php'; to your global.php file.
run composer dump-auto in terminal / CMD Prompt.
Simply type the function into your view/model/controller.
Check out the source code to see the optional parameters you can pass to these functions.
print 'Yesterday: '.yesterday().'<br>';
print 'Today: '.today().'<br>';
print 'Tomorrow: '.tomorrow().'<br>';
print 'Day Of Week: '.dayOfWeek().'<br>';
print 'UK Date: '.ukDate('2012-01-24 00:00:00').'<br>';
print 'UK Date / Time: '.ukDate('2012-01-24 00:00:00', true).'<br>';
print 'Human Date: '.humanDate('2013-10-26 00:00:00').'<br>';
print 'UK Date to Date: '.ukDateToDate('21/10/2013').'<br>';
print 'UK Date to Timestamp: '.ukDateToDate('21/10/2013 12:00:20', true).'<br>';
print 'Age in years: '.age('1985-10-26').'<br>';
$weekend = weekend() ? 'Yes':'No';
print 'Is it the weekend?: '.$weekend.'<br>';
print 'Diff In Days: '.diffInDays('2012-01-24 00:00:00').'<br>';
print 'Add 2 years: '.addYears(null, 2).'<br>';
print 'Add 2 months: '.addMonths(null, 2).'<br>';
print 'Add 2 weeks: '.addWeeks(null, 2).'<br>';
print 'Add 2 days: '.addDays(null, 2).'<br>';
print 'Start Of Day: '.startOfDay().'<br>';
print 'End Of Day: '.endOfDay().'<br>';
print 'Start Of Week: '.startOfWeek().'<br>';
print 'End Of Week: '.endOfWeek().'<br>';
print 'Start Of Month: '.startOfMonth().'<br>';
print 'End Of Month: '.endOfMonth().'<br>';
print 'Start Of Year: '.startOfYear().'<br>';
print 'End Of Year: '.endOfYear().'<br>';
print 'Start Of Decade: '.startOfDecade().'<br>';
print 'End Of Decade: '.endOfDecade().'<br>';
print 'Start Of Century: '.startOfCentury().'<br>';
print 'End Of Century: '.endOfCentury().'<br>';
print 'Next Monday: '.nextDay(null, 'Monday').'<br>';
print 'Next Monday After Date: '.nextDay('2014-03-01 12:30:12','Monday').'<br>';
print 'Next Monday After Date in d/m/Y H:ia format: '.nextDay('2014-03-01 12:30:12','Monday', 'd/m/Y H:ia').'<br>';
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