Using Carbon, how to get the translated day name by it's number?

Question

With Carbon, How to get the translated day name by providing it's number? (in the current locale)

giving that I have day number 1, I want to get Monday in english, Lunes in spanish, Montag in german and so on.

and only by using Carbon, I don't want to use kind of arrays of translated days.

I tried the Carbon::getDays() method which returns the array of day names, but Unfortunately, only in english.

Answer 1

If getting the day name is your only concern, you can do this with an array.

$weekdays = Carbon::getDays();

However, if you need a way to get the name for a locale there's 2 ways to go about it.

1. Use translation strings (in resources/lang folder. Need to be manually added)
2. Use Carbon:

Carbon::create($weekdays[$day])->locale($locale)->dayName;
// Carbon::create($weekdays[1])->locale('fr_FR')->dayName outputs 'lundi'
// Carbon::create($weekdays[1])->locale('es_ES')->dayName outputs 'lunes'
// Carbon::create($weekdays[1])->locale('en_US')->dayName outputs 'monday'

Alternatively, find a year that starts with a monday and you can avoid making a week days array. However, be sure to comment why you chose that specific year.

Answer 2

It's not pretty - but this works:

Carbon::now()->year(2018)->dayOfYear(1)->locale('de')->dayName

EDIT:

Carbon::now()->year(2019)->dayOfYear(0)->locale('de')->dayName