end date selection based on start date in laravel

Question

Hello! I am working on Laravel project I have a form for invoices which include two date fields along with other fields. The two dates are named start_date and end_date. I want to select the end date based on start date which date should be the next month just one day before. For example .. I set the start date to 10 of March then the end date should be 9th of April. one day before the selected date of next month

My fields are..

<div class="col-lg-6">
   <div class="form-group">
       <label>Start Date</label>
             <input class="form-control" type="date" name="start_date" value="{{old('start_date') }}">
   </div>
</div>
<div class="col-lg-6">
    <div class="form-group">
        <label>End Date</label>
           <input class="form-control" type="date" name="end_date" value="{{ old('end_date') }}">
    </div>
</div>

How can this be done and should it be through the java script or can it be in controller. If we can do it in controller then I sure that we will not need the end date field and that will be no problem.. Thanks in advance!

Ahmed Ali Ahmed Ali · Accepted Answer · 2021-02-27T18:43:17

Simple Way to do it in controller is :

Carbon::parse($request->start_date)->addMonths(1)->subDays(1)

What it gonna do is, parse the date via carbon, add month to the start date, then delete a day from the added month.

You can just set it into variable. and store it in the database as end date, or just directly store it.

end date selection based on start date in laravel

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