Carbon get current and last month name

http://php.net/manual/en/function.date.php

http://carbon.nesbot.com/docs/#api-addsub

$date = \Carbon\Carbon::now();
echo $date->format('F'); // July
echo $date->subMonth()->format('F'); // June

@topvillas @Cronix

Thanks, for some reason the locale is wrong in my blade files.

I've this in the boot method of my AppServiceprovider:

Carbon::setLocale('nl');

But I receive the default english translation.

In my controllers this is working correctly.

Any idea?

Can't help you with the locale issue, but beware, there is an issue with subMonth

Check this in tinker

>>> $dt=\Carbon\Carbon::parse('2017-03-30')
=> Carbon\Carbon {#707
     +"date": "2017-03-30 00:00:00.000000",
     +"timezone_type": 3,
     +"timezone": "UTC",
   }
>>> $dt->subMonth()
=> Carbon\Carbon {#707
     +"date": "2017-03-02 00:00:00.000000",
     +"timezone_type": 3,
     +"timezone": "UTC",
   }
>>>

Set the date to 30th March, subtract a month. February does not have 30th so date is set to 2nd March. In your case this and previous month could be the same

This is a known issue with the PHP DateTime class

better to adjust current month to the 1st and then subMonth

@Snapey good point on the broken php datetime stuff. I keep forgetting that long standing bug.

$date = Carbon::now();

echo $date->format('F'); // July
echo $date->startOfMonth()->subMonth()->format('F'); // June

//

$date = Carbon::parse('2017-03-30');

echo $date->format('F'); // March
echo $date->startOfMonth()->subMonth()->format('F'); // February

@lars6 I'm sorry, I don't know why blade is doing that. I've never needed to use locale in Laravel.

That might be a bit late, but to use format in blade you should use formatLocalized()