Level 2
Hi @ochirach
It's better to use Carbon for date and time operations in laravel.
You can check this, you will find the answer.
You can use directly in laravel controller by simply doing this,
use Carbon\Carbon;
Mar 5, 2018
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Level 1
Using PHP functions in view
Hi,
I have a php function (named 'weeks_in_month') that calculates and returns the number of weeks in a month (parameters: month,year). I want to use this functions result within the view i.e
$number_of_weeks_in_current_month = weeks_in_month($current_month_number, $current_year);
There are $number_of_weeks_in_current_month week(s) in this month
How can I go about this? Is a new controller needed for this? or is this a job for Service Injection? This views controller currently has the 1 function to return the view from a get request.
I will want to store globally used functions like these within a single file for future use
Level 10
If you're wanting to call the function from your blade file that would only be possible if it's a global helper. This article explains how to do that: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/32419619/how-do-i-make-global-helper-functions-in-laravel-5
The other option is to transform the data and send it to the view as a separate parameter.
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Level 16
I would just use a static function on a class - store the class in your psr-4 loaded space.
Level 1
Great! There are about 3 methods from the link but creating the Helper and recording in composer file seems the best solution. Thanks
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