Create Carbon date with string

Question

I got a date:

19/02/2018 00:00:00

I want paginate in decrescent order, so I got to create a carbon date...

I got this to show the 10 first days:

$today = Carbon::today();
$lastDays = array();

for ($i = 1; $i < 10; $i++) {
    $day = $today->subDays(1)->format('d/m/Y');
    $lastDays[] = $day;
}

But I want to show more, and this is to show more:

    $today = Carbon::createFromFormat('d-m-Y H:i:s',  '19/02/2019 00:00:00'); 

$lastDays = array();

for ($i = 1; $i < 10; $i++) {
    $day = $today->subDays(1)->format('d/m/Y');
    $lastDays[] = $day;
}

Don't works... returns:

"Unexpected data found. ↵Unexpected data found." On first line.

Answer 1

You need to change your code like this. You have provided the wrong format to createFromFormat function.

$today = Carbon::createFromFormat('d/m/Y H:i:s',  '19/02/2019 00:00:00'); 

$day = $today->subDays(1)->format('d/m/Y');

Answer 2

With Carbon there is an method called parse that takes a string and outputs your date. If the given string isn't valid it takes the current date as a default date.

Carbon::parse('your date')->format('your format');

So in your case you should do this:

$today = Carbon::parse('19/02/2019 00:00:00'); 
$lastDays = array();

for ($i = 1; $i < 10; $i++) {
   $day = $today->subDays(1)->format('d/m/Y');
   $lastDays[] = $day;
}

I hope it helps.