Carbon: range of dates

[fariss]

How to create a range of dates ?

[Anahkiasen]

What do you mean?

[fariss]

i want for exemple, create a range of dates between today and today + 20 days

[Anahkiasen]

You mean like if you do Carbon::parse('+20 days')->diff() ? Like a DateInterval object ?

[kylekatarnls]

A very primitive example:

class DateRange {
    public Carbon $start;
    public Carbon $end;
    public function __construct(Carbon $start, Carbon $end) {
        $this->start = $stard;
        $this->end= $end;
    }
}
$todayToPlus20 = new DateRange(Carbon::now(), Carbon::now()->addDays(20));
echo $todayToPlus20->start;
echo $todayToPlus20->end;

[briannesbitt]

If its an array of 20 dates you are after to just add them to an array ??

$start = Carbon::now();  // use your start here

for ($i = 0 ; $i < 20 ; $i++) {
   $dates[] = $start->copy();
   $start->addDay();
}

[fariss]

what i want is an array of dates between $startDate and $endDate:

$startDate = Carbon::now();
$endDate = '2014-07-30';
// result
array($startDate, $startDate+1day, $startDate+2day,..., $endDate);

[kylekatarnls]

briannesbitt's answer works in your case, replace juste $i < 20 with something like $start->format('Y-m-d') != $endDate.

[briannesbitt]

$start = Carbon::today();
$end = new Carbon('2014-07-30');
$end->startOfDay();
$dates = array();

while ($start->lte($end)) {
   $dates[] = $start->copy();
   $start->addDay();
}

[briannesbitt]

... and if you wanted it shorter (but harder to read IMO)

$start = Carbon::yesterday();
$end = new Carbon('2014-07-30');
$end->startOfDay();
$dates = array();

while ($start->lte($end)) {
   $dates[] = $start->addDay()->copy();
}

[fariss]

Nice :+1:

thank you @briannesbitt

[reinink]

This can also be done like this:

new DatePeriod($startDate, new DateInterval('P1D'), $endDate)

Just keep in mind that DatePeriod is an iterator, so if you want an actual array:

iterator_to_array(new DatePeriod($startDate, new DateInterval('P1D'), $endDate))

In you're using Laravel, you could always create a Carbon macro:

Carbon::macro('range', function ($start, $end) {
    return new Collection(new DatePeriod($start, new DateInterval('P1D'), $end));
});

Now you can do this:

foreach (Carbon::range($start, $end) as $date) {
   // ...
}

[kylekatarnls]

Will be added to the documentation:
https://github.com/briannesbitt/Carbon/compare/gh-pages...kylekatarnls:gh-pages-1.26