Carbon create from timestamp

Question

I am trying to convert some dates

<p>{{  Carbon\Carbon::parse($post->created_at)->diffForHumans()  }}</p>

This works fine as the date is in the format 2017-05-01 10:52:51

However I also have the dates stored as unix timestamps.

How can I covert these to a date?

I already tried

{{  Carbon\Carbon::createFromTimestamp($post->created_at)->toDateTimeString()  }}

Error - A non well formed numeric value encountered

The dump is

 <pre class="xdebug-var-dump" dir="ltr">
<small>int</small> 
<font color="#4e9a06">1493637826</font>
    </pre>

Tamikotamil

This is what I already tried Carbon\Carbon::createFromTimestamp($post->created_at)->toDateTimeString() }} – Tamikotamil

No joy with that? – Robison

Hi Robbie, no this is how I thought it would work and checked out the documentation before. It only seems to work with 1 or -1 as the argument. – Tamikotamil

Can you share some example data from the $post->created_at value? (var_export) – Robison

Added, it's an integer. – Tamikotamil

Possible duplicate of Convert Unix Timestamp to Carbon Object – Robison

I'll help you resolve this too because it doesn't seem to work for you... – Robison

Ok, I've tried this with Carbon and it works as expected. I haven't used Laravel, but from what I can tell your syntax looks fine. Sorry. Try direct PHP echo instead of {{ }} – Robison

Answer 1

Your first attempt using createFromTimestamp() is correct, so there must be something wrong with your input. Here is a working example:

>>> \Carbon\Carbon::createFromTimestamp(1493637826)->toDateTimeString();
=> "2017-05-01 11:23:46"

The error you encountered suggests you're passing in a DateTime string, not a unix timestamp:

>>> \Carbon\Carbon::createFromTimestamp('2017-05-01 11:23:46')->toDateTimeString();
PHP Notice:  A non well formed numeric value encountered

Dedra

Answer 2

In the end I had to use gmdate to convert the timestamp.

{{  Carbon\Carbon::parse(gmdate("Y-m-d\TH:i:s", $post->date_posted))->diffForHumans()  }}

It is strange because it should work the way Robbie Averill suggested.

Tamikotamil