Date in Form Requests

Using a carbon date you would want to compare to see something like the following

$today = Carbon::now()->format('Y-m-d');
$july_start = '2015-07-01';
$july_end = '2015-07-31';

if ($july_start <= $today && $july_end >= $today )
{
true
}
else
{
false
}

You have built in validation rules for that :

http://laravel.com/docs/5.1/validation#rule-before

http://laravel.com/docs/5.1/validation#rule-after

You need to read the docs properly everything you need is almost there.

Check all the validation rules laravel have.

http://laravel.com/docs/5.1/validation#available-validation-rules

HAPPY CODING

Thanks for your replies.

What i want to accomplish is something like this:

I have a form request in which i am providing the validation rules. Now for validating date, I am using before and after validators. My problem is, the date I want to pass to the before and after validators are calculated from today either by subtracting or adding days to the current date. After that,I am passing the modified date to the validator.

public function rules() { $date_i_want = Carbon::now()->subDays(15); return [ 'date'=>'required|before:${date_i_want}' ]; }

But this doesn't seem to be working. Is there any way i could pass the variable to the before validator.

Thanks

@ptgokulrajan. Perhaps this will work, worked when I tested it out in a test environment.

    public function rules()
    {
        $before_date = Carbon::now()->subDays(15)->toDateString();
        $after_date = Carbon::now()->addDays(15)->toDateString();

        return [
            'date' => 'required|date|before:' . $after_date . '|after:' . $before_date,
        ];
    }