Laravel Carbon | Add number of days excluding weekends and custom dates

First You can Check your project weekend days

Carbon::getWeekendDays()

In your App/Providers/AppServiceProvider.php you can add in boot method :

Carbon::setWeekStartsAt(Carbon::FRIDAY);
Carbon::setWeekEndsAt(Carbon::THURSDAY);

You can also change Week-end if needed :

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

Code

use Carbon\Carbon;
if (!function_exists('get_date_using_weekend_count')) {
    function get_date_using_weekend_count($date,$count,$holidays)
    {
        $MyDateCarbon = Carbon::parse($date);
        $MyDateCarbon->addWeekdays($count);
        for ($i = 1; $i <= $count; $i++) {
            if (in_array(Carbon::parse($date)->addWeekdays($i)->toDateString(), $holidays)) {
                $MyDateCarbon->addDay();
            }
        }
        return $MyDateCarbon->toFormattedDateString();
    }
}

Function Can be Used Like Below

$holidays = ["2015-01-01", "2015-01-02"];
$count = 25;
$date = "2022-09-20";
dd(get_date_using_weekend_count($date,$count,$holidays));

Output

Oct 25, 2022

So basically it adds $count Weekdays and checks if any of the Weekdays added is a holiday and if there are any, it’ll add a day to the final date. Thanks! Couldn’t have thought of it without you.