Laravel Carbon, retrieve today's date with weekday?

Question

I am using carbon to compare 2 dates with today\'s date, however I also have another field in a database called weekday which contains values like:

\'MO\' \'TU\' \'W

Answer 1

If you're in an English-speaking locale, you can get that short weekday format by doing some processing on Carbon's l format, which returns weekday names:

strtoupper(substr($today->format('l'), 0, 2)); // Returns 'MO', 'TU', etc

It can be even shorter if you have access to Carbon 2 (available on 2018-08-31):

strtoupper($today->isoFormat('dd'));