carbon get today date code example

Example 1: get current date carbon laravel

use Carbon\Carbon;
$date = Carbon::now();
//Get date and time
$date->toDateTimeString();
//Get date
$date->toDateString();

Example 2: laravel carbon today date format

$today = Carbon::now()->format('Y-m-d'); //yyyy-mm-dd etc

Example 3: carbon get today's month

use Carbon\Carbon;

// if today is January 22, 2021
Carbon::now()->format('M'); // "Jan"
Carbon::now()->format('m'); // "01"
Carbon::now()->month; // 1