How to compare a string with carbon date if more than or less than?

Is it correct to compare between string date and carbon date?

$today = Carbon::today();
$date= '22-7-2017';

if($date > $today){
//.....
}

Level 9

No, you need to instantiate $date as Carbon object, and then you can compare 2 values

Level 4

$date1 =Carbon::parse($date);
$today = Carbon::now();

Level 8

I wouldn't suggest it as you are likely to get false positives.

I would parse your string date and make it a Carbon object also and then do the compare.

So:

$date = Carbon::parse('22-7-2017');

Hope that helps.

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Level 67

if (Carbon::parse($date)->gt(Carbon::now())
// if $date > now (gt is greater than, gte is greater than or equal, etc)

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