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GodziLaravel's avatar

how to convert date to datetime ?

Hello,

How to convert date in DD/MM/YYYY to datetime format (to insert in DB)

Thanks

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ftiersch
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$date = '10/03/2019';

Carbon::parse($date)->toDatetimeString();
GodziLaravel's avatar

@ftiersch I have this error :

DateTime::__construct(): Failed to parse time string (24/09/2019) at position 0 (2): Unexpected character

code:

   dd(Carbon::parse($request->get('begin'))->toDatetimeString());
ftiersch's avatar

Maybe createFromFormat works better:

Carbon::createFromFormat('d/m/Y', $request->get('begin'))

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