Laravel Calculate Age from Date of Birth Example

In this small tutorial, i will show you how to calculate age from date using carbon in laravel 5, laravel 6, laravel 7, laravel 8, laravel 9, laravel 10 and laravel 11 application.

If you work on big web application then you might be sometime require to age calculate from date of birth. Like your birth date is around 02/07/1994 and today date like 10/9/2018 then it should be return 24 years old you are.

So, you can simply age calculation by using laravel carbon. So just see example:

Example 1:

You can see the following controller file code:

<?php
  
namespace App\Http\Controllers;
  
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use Carbon\Carbon;
  
class DemoController extends Controller
{
    /**
     * Write code on Method
     *
     * @return response()
     */
    public function index(Request $request)
    {
        $dateOfBirth = '1994-07-02';
        $years = Carbon::parse($dateOfBirth)->age;
            
        dd($years);
    }
}

Example 2:

You need to add age() function in User model as like the below:

<?php
  
namespace App\Models;
  
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Factories\HasFactory;
use Illuminate\Foundation\Auth\User as Authenticatable;
use Illuminate\Notifications\Notifiable;
use Laravel\Sanctum\HasApiTokens;
use Carbon\Carbon;
  
class User extends Authenticatable
{
    ....
  
    /**
     * Accessor for Age.
     */
    public function age()
    {
        return Carbon::parse($this->attributes['birthdate'])->age;
    }
}

You can use with $user object as like the below:

<p>{{ $user->age() }} years</p>

I hope it can help you...