how to format date to string in carbon in laravel code example
Example 1: carbon now format
use Carbon/Carbon
Carbon::now()->format('Y-m-d H:i:s');
Example 2: carbon format date in laravel
1. First parse the created_at field as Carbon object.
$createdAt = Carbon::parse($item['created_at']);
2.Then you can use
$suborder['payment_date'] = $createdAt->format('M d Y');