I have two timestamps, edited_at which I created and created_at (Laravel's)... In database, both have type timestamp and default value 0000-00-00 00:00:00... But
var_dump(edited_at variable)
is giving string. While var_dump(created_at variable)
is object/Carbon. What is wrong with these timestamps?
I have to compare both after converting into integer using format('U'). I can only call this method on Carbon Object. How can I do that?
First, Eloquent automatically converts it's timestamps (created_at
, updated_at
) into carbon objects. You could just use updated_at
to get that nice feature, or specify edited_at
in your model in the $dates
property:
protected $dates = ['edited_at'];
Now back to your actual question. Carbon has a bunch of comparison functions:
eq()
equalsne()
not equalsgt()
greater thangte()
greater than or equalslt()
less thanlte()
less than or equalsUsage:
if($model->edited_at->gt($model->created_at)){
// edited at is newer than created at
}