Integrate carbon library in codeigniter 3

Question

i'm having hard time trying to integrate the grate DateTime Library carbon library with in my project in codeigniter 3 I tried this

$this->load->library('carbon');

and it's give me an error

not existing class

i think the problem is namespaces because carbon uses namespace carbon\carbon

Thank you in advance.

Answer 1

Easy steps:

1. Direct download: https://github.com/briannesbitt/Carbon/blob/master/src/Carbon/Carbon.php

2. Put Carbon.php at application/libraries

3. Create Mcarbon.php

   <?php
   
   if ( ! defined('BASEPATH')) exit('No direct script access allowed');
   require_once dirname(__FILE__) . '/Carbon.php';
   
   use Carbon\Carbon;
   
   class Mcarbon extends Carbon
   {}
   

4. Put this in your Controller

   $this->load->library ( 'Mcarbon' ); 
   

5. Call Carbon method in any function. Example:

   <?php
   
   $dt =Mcarbon::createFromDate(2018,2,13,null);
   var_dump($dt->year);
   var_dump($dt->month);
   var_dump($dt->day);
   var_dump($dt->hour);