Carbon PHP parse datetime with dot notation
I'm using Carbon 2 and am having an issue with some strange dates in my application that are given to me by a third party api, ideally they'd always be in the YYYY-MM-DD
format but a few are coming in the following format: YYYY.MM.DD
.
How can I use Carbon::parse()
or PHP to reliably convert the string to hyphens and then parse it if in that format?
Example:
echo Carbon::parse('2022.07.24 10:34:05');
This is invalid.
Maybe I just look for the dots and change to hyphen and try re-parsing?
As described in the documentation:
$date = Carbon::createFromFormat('Y.m.d H:i:s', '2022.07.24 10:34:05');