find if date is older than 30 days

Question

The date string looks like this

2011-08-19 17:14:40

(year-month-day hours:minutes:seconds)

How can I find out if the date is older than

Answer 1

You can use Carbon as follows

if (30 - ((new \Carbon\Carbon($given_date, 'UTC'))->diffInDays()) < 0) {
    echo "The date is older than 30 days";
}