How to create a new Carbon date instance in PHP?

To create a new Carbon date instance in PHP, you can follow these steps:

Install the Carbon library using Composer. If you haven't installed Composer yet, you can download it from https://getcomposer.org/. Once Composer is installed, open a command-line interface and enter the following command:

composer require nesbot/carbon

Import the Carbon class at the top of your PHP file using the use statement:

use Carbon\Carbon;

Create a new instance of the Carbon class with the desired date and time:

$date = Carbon::create(2022, 12, 31, 23, 59, 59);

This creates a new Carbon instance representing the date and time December 31, 2022, at 23:59:59.

Optionally, you can also use the now() method to create a new instance representing the current date and time:

$date = Carbon::now();

This will set the $date variable to the current date and time.

Now you have a new Carbon instance that you can work with and perform various operations on, such as formatting, modifying, comparing, and calculating with dates and times.