Date object

Properties

• year
  • Returns the 4 digit year
• month
  • Returns an int from 1-12, representing the month
• day
  • Returns an int from 1-31
• hour
  • Returns an int from 0-23
• minute
  • Returns an int from 0-59
• second
  • Returns an int from 0-59
• timestamp
  • Returns a UNIX timestamp
• weekStartsAt
  • Returns an int from 0-6 (0 - Sunday, 6 - Saturday)
• weekEndsAt
  • Same as above
• dateString
  • Returns a Y-m-d string
• dateTimeString
  • Returns a Y-m-d H:i:s string
• timeString
  • Returns a H:i:s string
• weekday
  • Returns a boolean result if the date is a weekday date
• weekend
  • Returns a boolean result if the date is a weekend date
• sunday
  • Returns true if the date is a Sunday
  • Works for all week days monday, tuesday, wednesday, etc

Methods

• format
  • Format the date to PHP's date formatting guidelines, e.g. - event.startDate.format("l d, Y")
• eq
  • check if a date is equal to another date.
  • event.startDate.eq(event.endDate) would return true if both dates would be equal
• ne
  • check if the dates are not equal
• gt
  • checks if a date is greater than the other date
  • event.startDate.gt(anotherEvent.startDate) would return true only if event.startDate were greater than anotherEvent.startDate
• gte
  • check for greater OR equal than
• lt
  • check for less than
• lte
  • less than OR equal
• between
  • check if a date is between two other dates
  • event.startDate.between(month.startDate, month.endDate) would return true if the event.startDate were between a given month range