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Return next month name by passing a particular month name with Carbon

I need to get the next and previous months name by passing a month name to a function.

When I do this:

$date = Carbon::now(); // suppose Current month is May
$lastMonth =  $date->subMonth()->format('F'); // returns April
$nextMonth =  $date->addMonth()->format('F'); // returns June

The above code works fine. But I have a function where I need to pass the month name:

 $month = "Feburary"; // it can be any random month
 function getNextMonth($month)
    {
       //$date = Carbon::now();
       return $date->addMonth()->format('F'); // need the output to be March
    }

In this function how can I use the $month name to get the next month name?

Solution

  • You could use createFromFormat:

    Carbon::createFromFormat('F-d', "$month-1")->addMonth()->format('F');

    The -d/-1 is just to make sure it will always be the beginning of the month and not overflow to the next month depending on the current date.

    https://carbon.nesbot.com/docs/#api-instantiation (it's about the 10th block down from this link)