Laravel 5 Larbon Package
Based on Carbon, (*1)
The Larbon Service Provider can be installed via Composer by requiring the
mews/larbon package and setting the minimum-stability to dev (required for Laravel 5) in your
project's composer.json., (*2)
{
"require": {
"laravel/framework": "5.1.*",
"mews/larbon": "~1.0"
},
"minimum-stability": "dev"
}
or, (*3)
Require this package with composer:, (*4)
composer require mews/larbon
Update your packages with composer update or install with composer install., (*5)
Usage
To use the Larbon Service Provider, you must register the provider when bootstrapping your Laravel application. There are
essentially two ways to do this., (*6)
Find the providers key in config/app.php and register the Laravel Service Provider., (*7)
'providers' => [
// ...
Mews\Larbon\LarbonServiceProvider::class,
]
Find the aliases key in config/app.php., (*8)
'aliases' => [
// ...
'Larbon' => Mews\Larbon\Facades\Larbon::class,
]
Example Usage
Larbon::now()->format('l j F Y H:i:s');
// or
larbon()->format('l j F Y H:i:s');
$dtToronto = larbon()->createFromDate(2012, 1, 1, 'America/Toronto');
$dtVancouver = larbon()->createFromDate(2012, 1, 1, 'America/Vancouver');
echo $dtVancouver->diffInHours($dtToronto); // 3
Carbon Docs
http://carbon.nesbot.com/docs/, (*9)
^_^, (*10)
Links