Laravel carbon get year month format form two date

Question

I have store from_date and to_date in the database with MySQL DATE column type. How can I get date difference between from_date and to_date in format ..eg 1 Year 2 Months

2018-01-05
2019-02-22

2 Year 1 Month

Answer 1

Try this.

  $datetime1 = new DateTime("2018-01-05");
  $datetime2 = new DateTime("2019-02-22");
  $difference = $datetime1->diff($datetime2);
  echo !empty($difference->y) ? $difference->y.' Year ':'';
  echo !empty($difference->m) ? $difference->m.' Month ':'';

The output will be

   1 Year 1 Month

In carbon way

 use Carbon\Carbon;

 $startDate = Carbon::parse('2018-01-05'); 
 $endDate = Carbon::parse('2019-02-22'); 
 $diff = $startDate->diffInYears($endDate);
 $diffs = $startDate->diffInMonths($endDate);

 echo $diff;
 echo $diffs;