PHP Carbon specialized date format - php

Question

I want to make a function that will output a result like this:
//Assuming that today is 2022-01-20
parse_date("2022-01-20") //Today
parse_date("2022-01-19") //Yesterday
parse_date("2022-01-18") //Tuesday
parse_date("2022-01-17") //Monday
parse_date("2022-01-16") //Sunday
parse_date("2022-01-15") //2022-01-15
The idea is to display Today if the date is today, Yesterday if the date is yesterday, the weekday name if the date is within the current week and Y-m-d for anything else.
The current code I have that works is as follows:
public function parse_date($date) {
$carbonDate = Carbon::parse($date);
if($carbonDate->isToday()) return "Today";
if($carbonDate->isYesterday()) return "Yesterday";
$now = Carbon::now();
$start = $now->startOfWeek(CarbonInterface::SUNDAY)->copy();
if($carbonDate >= $start && $carbonDate <= $now->endOfWeek(CarbonInterface::SATURDAY)->copy()) {
return $carbonDate->format('l');
}
return $carbonDate->format('Y-m-d');
}
What I want to know is if there's a better way to do this using other Carbon functions.

Answer 1

Another way to do it is to check the week, and compare it to the current week. Double-check the values first to make sure this works, or if you need to change the locale, with Carbon::parse($date)->locale('en_US');
public function parse_date($date) {
$carbonDate = Carbon::parse($date);
if($carbonDate->isToday()) return "Today";
if($carbonDate->isYesterday()) return "Yesterday";
if($carbonDate->week == Carbon::now()->week) {
return $carbonDate->format('l');
}
return $carbonDate->format('Y-m-d');
}