Important

This plugin is no longer maintained.

Carbon for Craft CMS

This plugin provides access to Carbon dates in Craft templates.

Usage

This plugin simply converts a date or string into a Carbon instance.

See the Carbon docs for all the methods available.

Converting

This plugin provides a function, a filter, and a variable for converting dates into Carbon instances.

{# As a function #}
{% set date = carbon(entry.postDate) %}
{% set date = carbon('3 days ago') %}

{# As a filter #}
{% set date = entry.postDate|carbon %}
{% set date = 'Last Friday'|carbon %}

{# As a variable #}
{% set date = craft.carbon.carbon(entry.postDate) %}
{% set date = craft.carbon.carbon('Saturday 5pm') %}

Examples

{# Getters #}
{{ date.dayName }}{# Saturday #}
{{ date.locale('de').dayName }}{# Samstag #}

{# Addition #}
{{ date.addDay() }}
{{ date.addSeconds(555) }}

{# Subtraction #}
{{ date.sub('2 days') }}
{{ date.subWeek() }}

{# Difference for humans #}
{{ carbon(entry.postDate).ago() }}{# 5 days ago #}
{{ carbon(entry.postDate).locale('ja_JP').ago() }}{# 5日前 #}
{{ carbon('2020-01-01').diffForHumans('2020-02-02') }}{# 1 month before #}