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minasm/carbon-uk
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A basic wrapper for citco/carbon which returns business days between two given dates.

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Minasm/Carbon
=============

[](#minasmcarbon)

Minasm/Carbon is a package that extends the functionality of the [citco/carbon](https://github.com/citco/carbon) package, which provides a wrapper for the [Carbon](https://github.com/briannesbitt/Carbon) date/time library with support for UK bank holidays.

Installation
------------

[](#installation)

To install Minasm/Carbon, simply require it using [Composer](https://getcomposer.org/):

```
composer require minasm/carbon-uk

```

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

Minasm/Carbon provides a single method: `getBusinessDays()`. This method calculates the number of business days between two dates, excluding weekends and UK bank holidays. Here's how you can use it:

```
use Minasm\Carbon;

$startDate = '01/03/2023';
$endDate = '31/03/2023';

$businessDays = (new Carbon())->getBusinessDays($startDate, $endDate);

echo "There are {$businessDays} business days between {$startDate} and {$endDate}";

```

The output of the above code will be:

```
There are 23 business days between 01/03/2023 and 31/03/2023.

```

The `getBusinessDays()` method takes three parameters:

- `$start` (string): the start date, in the format specified by the `$format` parameter (default is `'d/m/Y'`).
- `$end` (string): the end date, in the format specified by the `$format` parameter (default is `'d/m/Y'`).
- `$format` (string, optional): the format of the `$start` and `$end` parameters (default is `'d/m/Y'`).

Issues
------

[](#issues)

If you encounter any bugs or have any feature requests, please submit them to the [GitHub issue tracker](https://github.com/minasm/carbon/issues).

License
-------

[](#license)

Minasm/Carbon is open source software licensed under the [MIT license](https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT).

###  Health Score

33

—

LowBetter than 75% of packages

Maintenance36

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity14

Limited adoption so far

Community7

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity61

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 100% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~561 days

Total

2

Last Release

586d ago

PHP version history (2 changes)1.0.0PHP ^7.2 || ^8.0

1.0.1PHP ^8.3

### Community

Maintainers

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Top Contributors

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Tags

Bankholidayholidaysbritishenglandwalesbusiness days

###  Code Quality

TestsPHPUnit

Static AnalysisPHPStan

Code StyleLaravel Pint

Type Coverage Yes

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