get date today in carbon 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: 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