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

You need to add another \ before your carbon class to start in the root namespace.

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

Also, make sure Carbon is loaded in your composer.json.