Level 122
parse is complaining that your data is not in the right format. Is it definitely a four digit year?
Jun 18, 2019
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Level 1
Carbon createFromFormat not working
Hi, Im trying to get the last day of the week using Carbon. I am using the method createFromFormat. This is what I am doing (validatedData['date'] can be for example: 2019 04):
$first_date = Carbon::createFromFormat('Y W', $validatedData['date'])->startOfWeek();
I get the following error:
message: "The format separator does not match ↵Trailing data"
Level 1
Yes I double checked it.
Level 104
Something in this format will work:
(new Carbon)->setISODate(2019, 17)->startOfWeek();
In this case, you would need to separate $validatedData['date'] into two variables:
[$year, $week] = explode(' ', $validatedData['date']);
$first_date = (new Carbon)->setISODate($year, $week)->startOfWeek();
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Level 122
we can only go by the error message. The data is not in the format you have told Carbon to expect
Level 1
Hmm. That would be strange because I said in createFromFormat that the format is Y W. And the date has exactly the same format.
Level 67
Do what @tykus mentioned. You can test that it won't work the way you are trying it with
$date = '2019 06';
$parsed = Carbon\Carbon::createFromFormat('Y W', $date);
You'll get the same error due to the space. You need to separate them like Tykus was showing. If you had a complete date it would work.
Out of curiosity, what date do you expect it to give you? The first day of the 6th week of 2019 at midnight?
Level 104
You cannot create a DateTime instance using the week number.
Level 1
@TYKUS - Thank you! Your solution worked perfectly for me.
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