Apply Functions according to the current day using Carbon

@Sinnbeck I'm calling it from database. It's Monday, Thursday. even if I do like this:

if(Carbon::now()->between('Monday', 'Thursday'))

Its only working for Monday & Thursday. Not for the day between them.

@Sharim It will treat monday as next monday. Try dd(Carbon::parse('Monday')->toDateString());. Use dd(now()->weekday(1)->toDateString());

@Sinnbeck Yeah its giving me "2022-10-31". The next Monday. But how can I add count only the days not the dates.

@Sharim You need to tell it what week we are taking about. Eg. dd(now()->weekday(1)->toDateString()); (1 = monday)

@Sinnbeck So it can only identify the boolean values not the string?

@Sinnbeck I need to convert string values into boolean.

But I have only 2 days stored in database. 'Monday' & 'Thursday'. I don't know how can I convert all the days between them.

@Sharim That is not a boolean. Its 0 = Sunday, 1 = Monday, 2 = Tuesday etc. So just store an integer in the database instead

Or even add a lookup map

$map = [
'Sunday' => 1,
'Monday' => 1,
'Tuesday' => 2,
];
$start = now()->weekday($map[$monday]);

@Sinnbeck Right now from the admin panel I'm storing days like this: <input type="text">.

Can I do something like this:

<select name="Weekdays">
<option name="Monday" value="1" />
<option name="Thursday" value="4" />
</select>

@Sharim Yeah that should work

@Sinnbeck That's great but how can I check the condition. Can I do like this?

if(now()->weekday(1)->toDateString()->between(1, 4))

@Sharim Just do this

$start = now()->weekday(1);
$end = now()->weekday(4);
if(now()->between($start, $end))

@Sharim It's really difficult to read the documentation

if (in_array(now()->dayOfWeek, range(1, 4))) {
    // monday to thursday
}

@MichalOravec if sunday = 0. Then Friday to Sunday if (in_array(now()->dayOfWeek, range(5, 0))) is not working.

@Sharim Did you try my example?

@Sinnbeck yes Sir I tried like this:

$start = now()->weekday(1);
$end = now()->weekday(4);
if(now()->between($start, $end))

its working but from Friday to Sunday:

$start = now()->weekday(5);
$end = now()->weekday(0);
if(now()->between($start, $end))

is not working.

Its counting Sunday to Friday. Instead of Friday to Sunday.

@Sharim I assume you are coming from a place where sunday isnt the first day of the week?

You can probably set it globally (like setting your locale in your config/app.php) but

$start = now()->startOfWeek(\Carbon\Carbon::MONDAY)->weekday(1);
$end = now()->startOfWeek(\Carbon\Carbon::MONDAY)->weekday(4);
if(now()->between($start, $end)) {

@Sinnbeck My config/app.php is something like this according to my location.

'timezone' => 'Asia/Dubai',
'locale' => 'en',

@Sharim Try adding this to your AppServiceProvider

Carbon::endOfWeek(0);

@Sinnbeck I did like this in AppServiceProvider:

public function boot()
    {
        Carbon::endOfWeek(0);
    }

but its giving me this error while clearing the cache:

Modify to start of current hour, minutes and seconds become 0

@Sharim try this

$today = Carbon::now();
return $today->format('l'); //This is small alphabet L in the format fun.

@Sharim Ok. Maybe set the locale instead and let it figure it out itself

Carbon::setLocale('foo'); //I don't the name of your locale.

You can find the list here: https://github.com/briannesbitt/Carbon/tree/master/src/Carbon/Lang

Or try googling this yourself (that is all I am doing)

@Shivamyadav It will only convert integer value into the string day. But it will not check the days between monday to sunday.

@Sinnbeck Ahh! Your answer above worked for me. I was just trying to fix it from config as recommended way. I'm Sorry to waste your time.

@Sharim No worries :) Good that it works

@MichalOravec It can only count 2 days. 'Wednesday' & 'Friday'.

But I want to check all the days in the week. I tried it from the Carbon docs before but I couldn't do it.

@Sharim Start thinking man... it was just an example...

@Sharim try this

$today = Carbon::now();
return $today->format('l'); //This is small alphabet L in the format fun.