PHP Carbon formatting day in st, nd, rd, th format

Question

I am using PHP Carbon to format the day. I get the day of the date like this.

$day = Carbon::parse($date)->format('d');

But I want to format that day something like this.

'01st', '2nd', '3rd', '4th'

How can I do that, please?

Answer 1

I'd recommend using DateTime class in PHP

$day = DateTime::createFromFormat('Y-m-d','2019-06-09')->format('jS');

//Or Using Existing Carbon Class

$day = Carbon::parse($date)->format('jS');

For More Info DateTimeFormats in PHP PHP Date Manual

Answer 2

You can format it with Carbon as below

Carbon::parse($date)->format('dS') // with preceding 0 ie 01st
Carbon::parse($date)->format('jS') // without preceding 0 ie 1st

for more See Carbon Documentation