Hi Artisan,

Today, In this Tutorial, i will share something how to subtract year in laravel using carbon in laravel so it can easy to use in laravel app.

So,if you require to subtract one year or more years you can use carbon in laravel. carbon provide inbuilt function subYear()

Here, I will give you a full example of how to subtract years in laravel using carbon in laravel. so follow my example code and you can use your laravel application to copy that code.

<?php

namespace App\Http\Controllers;

use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use Carbon\Carbon;

class HomeController extends Controller
{
    /**
     * laravel carbon sub year..
     *
     * @return string
    */
    public function index()
    {
        // subYear
        $currentDateTime = Carbon::now();
        $newDateTime = Carbon::now()->subYear();

        // echo "<pre />";
        print_r($currentDateTime);
        print_r($newDateTime);
    }

}

Carbon\Carbon Object

(
    [date] => 2021-08-11 04:20:53.037844

    [timezone_type] => 3

    [timezone] => UTC
)

Carbon\Carbon Object

(
    [date] => 2020-08-11 04:20:53.037847

    [timezone_type] => 3

    [timezone] => UTC
)

<?php

namespace App\Http\Controllers;

use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use Carbon\Carbon;

class HomeController extends Controller
{
    /**
     * laravel carbon sub years..
     *
     * @return string
    */
    public function index()
    {
        // subYears
        $currentDateTime = Carbon::now();
        $newDateTime = Carbon::now()->subYears(2);

        // echo "<pre />";
        print_r($currentDateTime);
        print_r($newDateTime);
    }

}

Carbon\Carbon Object

(
    [date] => 2021-08-11 04:23:15.054220

    [timezone_type] => 3

    [timezone] => UTC
)

Carbon\Carbon Object

(
    [date] => 2019-08-11 04:23:15.054229

    [timezone_type] => 3

    [timezone] => UTC
)

I Hope It Will Help You..