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I tried to summarize the format of Carbon that can be used with whereDate, whereMonth, whereYear in Laravel.

How to use Carbon

If you use it like this, you can specify the format.

use Carbon\Carbon;

//Today is 2022-04-10
$today = Carbon::now()->format('Y-m-d');

Format for whereDate

You can search with a string like this with whereDate.

2022-04-10

So, with Carbon it looks like this.

        $today = Carbon::now()->format('Y-m-d');
        $posts = Post::whereDate('created_at',$today)->get();

Format for whereMonth

You can search by simply writing the month as a number with whereMonth.

4 //When it's April

So, with Carbon it looks like this.

This month

        $month = Carbon::now()->addDay()->format('m');
        $posts = Post::whereMonth('created_at',$month)->get();

Next month

        $month = Carbon::now()->addMonth()->format('m');
        $posts = Post::whereMonth('created_at',$month)->get();

Format for whereYear

For whereYear,

2022

You can search by writing the year in numbers.

So, with Carbon it looks like this.

This year

        $year = Carbon::now()->format('Y');
        $posts = Post::whereMonth('created_at',$year)->get();

Summary

That's all.

I tried using Carbon formats and how to write with whereDate and others.

I hope it can be helpful to someone.

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That's it!

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