Unique dates with faker

Faker is giving me duplicate dates with the unique flag:

'date' => $faker->unique()->dateTimeBetween($startDate = "now", $endDate = "30 days")->format('Y-m-d')

I'm guessing it's considering the date + time is unique, but I want the resulting date to be unique.

Any ideas?

usman

11 years ago

Level 27

Hi, IMHO, you can also use Carbon to generate the random dates e.g:

$date = new Carbon\Carbon();
for($i = 1; $i<=20; $i++)
{
    $randomDays = mt_rand(1,31);
    $date->addDays($randomDays);
    echo $date->toDateString().PHP_EOL;//just for output in tinker
}

Here is the output:

I am not sure :( if this suits your needs. Just an opinion. Thanks!

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