In this article, we will see how to count working days in laravel 9. Here, we will learn to calculate working days excluding weekends in laravel 7, laravel 8, and laravel 9 using carbon. You can calculate working days between two dates using the carbon function.

    The carbon provides isWeekend() function to check weekends and also you can set custom weekend days using the setWeekendDays() function. You can get a number of working days between two dates in laravel 9 using carbon.

    So, let's see the laravel 9 counts working days using carbon, how to calculate working days excluding weekends, how to exclude saturday and sunday between two dates, and calculate business days in laravel 8 and laravel 9.

    In this example, we will see to calculate working days excluding Saturday and Sunday using carbon.

<?php

$dt = Carbon::create(2023, 1, 1);
$dt2 = Carbon::create(2023, 12, 31);

$daysForExtraCoding = $dt->diffInDaysFiltered(function(Carbon $date) {
   return $date->isWeekend();
}, $dt2);

echo $daysForExtraCoding;

    Output:

    In this example, you can set custom weekend days using the setWeekendDays() function.

<?php

Carbon::setWeekendDays([
    Carbon::SATURDAY,
    Carbon::SUNDAY,
]);

$dt = Carbon::create(2023, 1, 1);
$dt2 = Carbon::create(2023, 12, 31);

$daysForExtraCoding = $dt->diffInDaysFiltered(function(Carbon $date) {
   return $date->isWeekend();
}, $dt2);

echo $daysForExtraCoding;

    Output:

    In this example, we will count the number of days in a month excluding weekends.

<?php

CarbonPeriod::macro('countWeekdays', static function () {
    return self::this()->filter('isWeekday')->count();
});
echo CarbonPeriod::create('2022-12-01', '2022-12-31')->countWeekdays();  

    Output:

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