Array of dates from current date

Question

Good day.

Ive been trying to get the days from the current day using Carbon in Laravel. So if today is the December 20 I want to get an array with:

December 20, 2018
December 21, 2018
December 22, 2018
December 23, 2018
December 24, 2018

I want to do it for 2 weeks or maybe even 3 weeks. This is what I got so far.

$currentdate = Carbon::now()->format('m/d/Y');
$ts = strtotime($currentdate);

$year = date('o', $ts);
$week = date('W', $ts);

$datearray = [];
for($i = 1; $i <= 7; $i++) {
   $ts = strtotime($year.'W'.$week.$i);
   array_push($datearray,date("m/d/Y", $ts));
}

The code above gives me for the week from the starting of the week and not from the day going forward.

Look into this answer [PHP Carbon, get all dates between date range?](https://stackoverflow.com/a/50854594/3226121) — ljubadr, Dec 20 '18 at 20:11
Carbon has some great methods for getting and settings dates, such as addDay() and toDateString. It might be easier than what you're trying to do here. Check out their [docs here](https://carbon.nesbot.com/docs/) — aynber, Dec 20 '18 at 20:15
in carbon use `addDays(1);` in a loop, your mixing in legacy strtotime for some reason — , Dec 20 '18 at 20:16

JsWizard · Answer 1 · 2018-12-21T08:48:59.733

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Try this,

$datearray = [];
for($i = 0; $i < 7; $i++) {
   array_push($datearray, date('F d, Y', strtotime($i == 0 ?'today UTC':'today +'.$i.'day')));
   //push to array as 'December 20, 2018'
}

enjoy coding~! :)

edited Dec 21 '18 at 08:48

answered Dec 20 '18 at 20:24

JsWizard

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why use carbon ignore all its methods and revert to strtotime? – Dec 20 '18 at 20:28
@tim, It has a lot of useful built-in functions and is easy to develop than original function of PHP Data.:) https://carbon.nesbot.com/docs/" – JsWizard Dec 20 '18 at 20:48
exactly, so why not use them? – Dec 20 '18 at 20:53
@tim, you can use that in your code if you want more performance, built-in function also included PHP methods in internal :) – JsWizard Dec 20 '18 at 21:02
if that's why you think why are you using `Carbon::now` ? you cant have it both ways. – Dec 20 '18 at 21:11
@tim, please check this, I learned PHP `Date` is better than `Carbon` because of you. thanks:p https://stackoverflow.com/questions/43113905/which-is-faster-php-date-functions-or-carbon – JsWizard Dec 21 '18 at 08:37

Don't Panic · Accepted Answer · 2018-12-21T12:04:04.613

If you are already using Carbon, use its power!

use \Carbon\Carbon;

// how many days you want in your array
$count = 7;
$dates = [];
$date = Carbon::now();
for ($i = 0; $i < $count; $i++) {
    $dates[] = $date->addDay()->format('F d, Y');
}

// Show me what you got
print_r($dates);

Output is:

Array
(
    [0] => December 22, 2018
    [1] => December 23, 2018
    [2] => December 24, 2018
    [3] => December 25, 2018
    [4] => December 26, 2018
    [5] => December 27, 2018
    [6] => December 28, 2018
)

Array of dates from current date

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