How to have different view based on date in Laravel - php

Question

I'm having a problem in having a different view by comparing today's date and expired date. Before I'm telling deeper about my problem, let me show you the code:
buyer table
id
name
address
phone_no
email
expired_at (date)
created_at
BuyerController.php
public function create(Request $request)
{
$buyers = Buyer::create([
'name' => $request->name,
'address' => $request->address,
'phone_no' => $request->phone_no,
'email' => $request->email,
'expired_at' => Carbon::today()->addDays(730),
]);
return response()->json($buyers);
}
buyers\index.blade.php
<div class="panel-body">
<table class="table table-hover" id="buyer-table">
<thead>
<tr>
<th>ID</th>
<th>Name</th>
<th>Address</th>
<th>Phone No</th>
<th>Email</th>
<th>Registered Date</th>
<th>Liability Period</th>
</tr>
</thead>
#foreach($buyers as $buyer)
<tr class="buyer{{$buyer->id}}">
<td>{{$buyer->buyer_id}}</td>
<td>{{$buyer->name}}</td>
<td>{{$buyer->address}}</td>
<td>{{$buyer->phone_no}}</td>
<td>{{$buyer->email}}</td>
<td>{{date('d/m/Y', strtotime($buyer->created_at))}}</td>
#if(now() < $buyer->expired_at)
<td class="text-success">Valid</td>
#else
<td class="text-danger">Expired</td>
#endif
</tr>
#endforeach
</table>
</div>
Until here, I manage to complete my code which I successfully compared the expired date and today's date in the table view.
web.php
Route::get('/report-form','ComplaintController#create');
ComplaintController.php
public function create()
{
return view('buyers.complaints.create');
}
However, before deciding to develop this new idea, buyer can just view the create.blade.php in order to make a new complaint. But now, if the expired_at is already passed today's date, buyer can not make any complaint which will return to view expired.blade.php.
buyers\complaints\create.blade.php
<div class="panel-heading">
<h3 class="panel-title"><strong>Make New Report</strong></h3>
</div>
//There is a form for the buyers to fill in the complaint
buyers\complaints\expired.blade.php
<div class="panel-heading">
<h3 class="panel-title"><strong>Sorry you can't make any report</strong></h3>
</div>
I only have an idea to make if else statement in function create() but I do not know what is the correct query. What I already tried:
public function create()
{
$expired = Buyer::select('id')->where('expired_at','>', now())->get();
$valid = Buyer::select('id')->where('expired_at','<', now())->get();
if ($expired) {
return view('buyers.complaints.create');
}
elseif ($valid) {
return view('buyers.complaints.expired');
}
}
I do not know what I'm trying to do because there is no difference. If the buyers liability period has end (expired date has passed today's date) also can view the buyers\complaints\create.blade.php and I'm still new in Laravel. So, I hope there is someone can help me in figuring this out. Thank you in advanced.

Answer 1

You only have 2 outcomes (unless a blank response was a 3rd) so one query to check the existence of a record should work:
if (Buyer::where('expired_at', '>=', now())->exists()) {
return view('buyers.complaints.create');
}
return view('buyers.complaints.expired');
This is assuming you are looking for any Buyer who still isn't expired.
If you want to restrict this to a certain buyer and pass the buyer to the view:
$buyer = Buyer::findOrFail($buyerId);
$view = ($buyer->expired_at >= now()) ? 'create' : 'expired';
return view('buyers.complaints.'. $view, ['buyer' => $buyer]);