title: Check today is between start date and expired date using Carbon?
body: <p>I have to check whether coupon is active, or no by checking that today is between start date and expired date.</p>
  
  <p>My start date and expired date format is <code>01/12/2017</code></p>
  
  <p>Let assume, today is <code>21/06/2017</code></p>
  
  <p>Coupon start date is <code>19/06/2017</code> and expired date is <code>23/06/2017</code></p>
  
  <p>So it should result in <code>Coupon is Active</code>, wheter today is less than coupon start and expired date it should result in <code>Coupon is Expired</code> </p>
  
  <p>So far I didn't find any tutorial which comparing today with start and expired date using Carbon.</p>
  
  <p>Almost all tutorial like this</p>
  
  <pre><code>$now = Carbon::now();
  
  $end_date = Carbon::parse($request-&gt;input('end_date'));
  
  $lengthOfAd = $end_date-&gt;diffInDays($now);
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>So How I can check if today is between start date and expired date, and today is less than start date and expired date using Carbon in Laravel?</p>
  
  <p>Thanks in advance.</p>