Laravel: Divide into monthly installments - laravel

Question

On a controller store function, I have this code:
public function store(RegisterAccountsRequest $request){
if($request->installment > 1){
foreach(range(1, $request->installment) as $installment) {
$data = new Financial;
$data->type = $request->type[0];
$data->payment = $request->payment[0];
$data->description = $request->description;
$data->status = $request->status;
$data->name = $request->name . " ( {$installment} / {$request->installment} )";
$data->value = ( $request->value / $request->installment );
if ($request->amount_paid == '0.00') {
$data->effective = 0;
} else {
$data->effective = 1;
}
$data->installment = $installment;
$data->due_date = $request->due_date;
$data->save();
$cf = new ClientFinancial;
$cf->client_id = Auth::user()->id;
$cf->financial_id = Financial::orderBy('id', 'desc')->first()->id;
$cf->save();
}
} else {
$data = new Financial;
$data->type = $request->type[0];
$data->payment = $request->payment[0];
$data->description = $request->description;
$data->status = $request->status;
$data->name = $request->name;
$data->value = $request->value;
if ($request->amount_paid == '0.00') {
$data->effective = 0;
} else {
$data->effective = 1;
}
$data->installment = 1;
$data->due_date = $request->due_date;
$data->save();
$cf = new ClientFinancial;
$cf->client_id = Auth::user()->id;
$cf->financial_id = Financial::orderBy('id', 'desc')->first()->id;
$cf->save();
}
return redirect()->route('admin.financials.index')
->with('success', "Conta cadastrada com sucesso!", $data);
}
When $request->installment is bigger than 1, then runs the first part of the code e it should do some calculations which I'm not figuring out how to store each installment for each month, like:
due_date
________
30/10/2020
30/11/2020
30/12/2020
etc.
I hope I made myself clear enough.
Help, please!

Answer 1

I think you need something like this:
public function store(RegisterAccountsRequest $request){
if($request->installment > 1){
$dueDate = Carbon::createFromFormat('d/m/Y', $request->due_date);
foreach(range(1, $request->installment) as $installment) {
$data = new Financial;
$data->type = $request->type[0];
$data->payment = $request->payment[0];
$data->description = $request->description;
$data->status = $request->status;
$data->name = $request->name . " ( {$installment} / {$request->installment} )";
$data->value = ( $request->value / $request->installment );
if ($request->amount_paid == '0.00') {
$data->effective = 0;
} else {
$data->effective = 1;
}
$data->installment = $installment;
$data->due_date = $dueDate->format('d/m/Y');
$dueDate->addMonth();
$data->save();
$cf = new ClientFinancial;
$cf->client_id = Auth::user()->id;
$cf->financial_id = Financial::orderBy('id', 'desc')->first()->id;
$cf->save();
}
} else {
$data = new Financial;
$data->type = $request->type[0];
$data->payment = $request->payment[0];
$data->description = $request->description;
$data->status = $request->status;
$data->name = $request->name;
$data->value = $request->value;
if ($request->amount_paid == '0.00') {
$data->effective = 0;
} else {
$data->effective = 1;
}
$data->installment = 1;
$data->due_date = $request->due_date;
$data->save();
$cf = new ClientFinancial;
$cf->client_id = Auth::user()->id;
$cf->financial_id = Financial::orderBy('id', 'desc')->first()->id;
$cf->save();
}
return redirect()->route('admin.financials.index')
->with('success', "Conta cadastrada com sucesso!", $data);
}
In this case I make a Carbon(carbon docs) instance with date due_date.
After using the value like so $data->due_date = $dueDate->format('d/m/Y'); and then adding one month like so $dueDate->addMonth(); I have a new month available each iteration.