[SOLVED] Iterating Carbon date inside loop

Iterating Carbon date inside loop

In my Laravel project I want to create a array of next 7 days dynamically. I have following setup:

    $pickup_dates = [];
    $today = Carbon::today();
    for ($i = 0; $i < 7; $i++) {
      $pickup_dates[] = $today->addDay();
    }
    dd($pickup_dates);

But when I use dd to dump data my output as follows:

Array
(
[0] => Carbon\Carbon Object
    (
        [date] => 2017-08-09 00:00:00.000000
        [timezone_type] => 3
        [timezone] => UTC
    )

[1] => Carbon\Carbon Object
    (
        [date] => 2017-08-09 00:00:00.000000
        [timezone_type] => 3
        [timezone] => UTC
    )

[2] => Carbon\Carbon Object
    (
        [date] => 2017-08-09 00:00:00.000000
        [timezone_type] => 3
        [timezone] => UTC
    )

[3] => Carbon\Carbon Object
    (
        [date] => 2017-08-09 00:00:00.000000
        [timezone_type] => 3
        [timezone] => UTC
    )

[4] => Carbon\Carbon Object
    (
        [date] => 2017-08-09 00:00:00.000000
        [timezone_type] => 3
        [timezone] => UTC
    )

[5] => Carbon\Carbon Object
    (
        [date] => 2017-08-09 00:00:00.000000
        [timezone_type] => 3
        [timezone] => UTC
    )

[6] => Carbon\Carbon Object
    (
        [date] => 2017-08-09 00:00:00.000000
        [timezone_type] => 3
        [timezone] => UTC
    )

)

As you can see it outputs same date, but I want to date sequence of the next 7 days. What I want to achieve is this:

2017-08-03
2017-08-04
2017-08-05
2017-08-06
2017-08-07
2017-08-08
2017-08-09

Can you tell me what is the wrong with this code? Or is there any other way to achieve this?

Solution

You are working with same Carbon object that's why you are getting out put like that.

Try this

$pickup_dates = [];
$today = Carbon::today()->toDateString();
for ($i = 0; $i < 7; $i++) {
    $pickup_dates[]=Carbon::parse($today);
      $today = Carbon::parse($today)->addDay()->toDateString();
}
dd($pickup_dates);

Out put as