How to get Current Timestamp from Carbon in Laravel 5

Question

I want to get current timestamp in laravel 5 and I have done this-

$current_time = Carbon\\Carbon::now()->toDateTimeString();

I am getting e

Answer 1

It may be a little late, but you could use the helper function time() to get the current timestamp. I tried this function and it did the job, no need for classes :).

You can find this in the official documentation at https://laravel.com/docs/5.0/templates

Regards.