How to get latest date from now on a given date using carbon in laravel

Question

I want the nearest date passed from given date using carbon

$givenDate = "2020-07-18";

Today is = 2020-12-01

So the result should be the 18th last month. $result = "2020-11-18"

Answer 1

you can use subMonth() from now to get the last month then create a new datetime with suitable values:

 $givenDate =Carbon::parse( "2020-12-20");
        if($givenDate>Carbon::now())
            $result=Carbon::create(Carbon::now()->year,Carbon::now()->month,$givenDate->day)
                ->format('yy-m-d');
            else
        $result=Carbon::create(Carbon::now()->year,Carbon::now()->subMonth()->month,$givenDate->day)
        ->format('yy-m-d');