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

With a \ before a Class declaration you are calling the root namespace:

$now = \Carbon\Carbon::now()->timestamp;

otherwise it looks for it at the current namespace declared at the beginning of the class. other solution is to use it:

use Carbon\Carbon
$now = Carbon::now()->timestamp;

you can even assign it an alias:

use Carbon\Carbon as Time;
$now = Time::now()->timestamp;

hope it helps.