🔥 If you've ever found yourself manually dealing with request inputs looking to parse it to Carbon. You might want to use the `date` method on the Request instance instead. #Laravel #PHP

🔥 #Laravel Tip: If you need to render dates and times a lot in your app, then consider making a custom Carbon class. You can then tell Laravel to always use your class via the Date facade.

Carbon provides next() and previous() functions that return upcoming and previous occurrences of a particular weekday or time.

❗️⏰ When working with Carbon/timezones, you should be aware that setting the timezone during construction is not the same as altering the timezone later. 👍

🔥 Laravel tip: Use the CarbonImmutable class instead of Carbon to avoid changing the object without having to clone it.

One of the reasons I really like using Laravel. Get a Carbon instance directly from Request in Laravel. Slick little feature. Loads more features in a snapshot here https://t.co/FGGk7nx6lM

A pull request recently got merged into Laravel that allows you to use the "->when()" method on a PendingRequest 🔥 #laravel #php

When getting PREVIOUS month, be careful with Carbon subMonth you might not get the result that you’re expecting. You may want to checkout subMonthWithNoOverflow instead

💡There's a really helpful date helper on the Request class. You can retrieve a value as a Carbon instance: