Generate an array of dates using Carbon
PHP
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When a customer at Surewise wants to take out a new insurance policy, they can only take one out with a start date within the next thirty days.
Date pickers are horrendnous with browser compatibility, given IE11 and Safari don't support them, so we instead choose to use a simple <select> element with the dates as <option> inside.
Here's how you can generate an array of dates for a given period:
use Carbon\{
CarbonPeriod,
Carbon
};
CarbonPeriod::create(
Carbon::now(),
Carbon::now()->addDays(30)
);
Calling this method will return an instance of Carbon\CarbonPeriod which has implements the Iterator interface and can therefore be used inside of a foreach statement.
When looping over the CarbonPeriod instance, the iteration variable will be an instance of Carbon\Carbon, so you can call all of the regular format and toDateTimeString() methods.