Laravel: Get Day From Date

In this tutorial, we will learn how to get the day name from date in Laravel. Laravel provides a very useful Carbon instance to interact with date & time. The Carbon instance actually uses PHP’s DateTime class in the backend. Let’s just dive into it and explore it.

Get Day From Date In Laravel

Carbon provides the format() method which is used to format the date as we want. We can also get the day name from the date. Also, this function is useful to change any kind of date format like we are doing in PHP’s date() function. Let’s see simple examples.

Notes: Don’t forget to add use Carbon/Carbon in namespace

Example 1: Extract Day Name From Static Date

<?php

namespace App\Http\Controllers;
use Carbon\Carbon;

class PaymentController extends Controller
{

    public function index()
    {
        $paymentDate = '05/06/2021';
        $day = Carbon::createFromFormat('d/m/Y', $paymentDate)->format('l');
        dd($day);
    }
}

Output:

"Saturday"

In the above example, we have used the createFromFormat() function which helps us to provide exact conversion from the specific date format else it might interpret the wrong date format and gives us the wrong output.

It is always advisable to use createFromFormat() function while dealing with the static dates or if you changed the default date format.

Example 2: Extract Day Name From Table’s Date Column

Use the following example when you have date or timestamp column into your database table.

Laravel is smart enough so when you are dealing with dates or timestamps then it will automatically be converted into the Carbon instance so you can easily convert it as per your needs. For example,

<?php

namespace App\Http\Controllers;

use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use Carbon\Carbon;
use App\Models\Payment;

class PaymentController extends Controller
{
    public function index()
    {
        $payment = Payment::find(1);

        $day = $payment->created_at->format('l');
        
        dd($day);
    }
}

Output:

"Saturday"

Example 3: Extract Day Name Using PHP’s date() Function

If you don’t want to use Laravel’s Carbon instance then you can simply use the PHP’s date() function to get the day name from date.

<?php

namespace App\Http\Controllers;

use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use Carbon\Carbon;
use App\Models\Payment;

class PaymentController extends Controller
{
    public function index()
    {
        $payment = Payment::find(1);

        $day = date('l', strtotime($payment->created_at));
        
        dd($day);
    }
}

Output:

"Saturday"

Additionally, read our guide:

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