Laravel get entries in the database in given interval of time - php

Question

I want to display in the admin panel statitics about users and other things in the database.
For example to show how many users were registered today, this month etc.
For now I am doing this with the users for today the following way:
$users = User::where('admin', 0)->get();
$usersRegisteredToday = array_filter($users->toArray(), function ($user) {
$registerDate = \DateTime::createFromFormat('Y-m-d H:i:s', $user['created_at']);
$registerDate->setTime(0,0,0);
$today = new \DateTime();
$today->setTime(0,0,0);
$diff = $today->diff($registerDate);
$diffDays = (integer)$diff->format("%R%a"); // Extract days count in interval
return $diffDays == 0;
});
return view('admin.index', compact("users", "usersRegisteredToday"));
And in the view:
<p class="text-no">Today: {{ count($usersRegisteredToday) }} </p>
I wonder if there is a better, simpler and faster way to do this, because I think if I get the information for the other things that way it will be very slow and heavy. So i want to know the best and lightest way to do this.

Answer 1

As of Laravel 5.3 we can use whereDate / whereMonth / whereDay / whereYear
For example to get records created today:
$users = User::whereDate('created_at', DB::raw('CURDATE()'))->get();
Possibly a similar question is asked here: Get only records created today in laravel

Answer 2

$todayStart = (new Carbon())->setTime(0, 0);
$todayEnd = (new Carbon())->setTime(23, 59, 59);
$users = User::where('admin', 0)
->where('created_at', '>=', $todayStart)
->where('created_at', '<=', $todayEnd)
->get();
You could use query scopes which would make it even better. Inside User model:
class User extends Model
{
public function scopeCreatedBefore(Carbon $date)
{
return $this->where('created_at', '<=', $date);
}
public function scopeCreatedAfter(Carbon $date)
{
return $this->where('created_at', '>=', $date);
}
}
And for the usage:
$todayStart = (new Carbon())->setTime(0, 0);
$todayEnd = (new Carbon())->setTime(23, 59, 59);
$users = User::where('admin', 0)
->createdAfter($todayStart)
->createdBefore($todayEnd)
->get();

Answer 3

Its quite easy to do it. Im doing this in laravel 5.6
We are working in controller here. Lets say $date1 and $date2 is your range.
First, parse the date to carbon
$olddate = Carbon::parse($date1)->format('Y-m-d');
$newdate = Carbon::parse($date2)->format('Y-m-d');
Now, we get the users within that date range.
$users = Users::latest()
->whereBetween('created_at', array($olddate, $newdate))
->orderBy('id', 'desc')
->get(); // or count if you just want to count
basically, the function will look like below
public function betweendates(Request $request)
{
// get dates from request
$date1= $request->olddate;
$date2= $request->newdate;
// parse date to carbon
$olddate = Carbon::parse($date1)->format('Y-m-d');
$newdate = Carbon::parse($date2)->format('Y-m-d');
// the magic stuff
$users = Users::latest()
->whereBetween('created_at', array($olddate, $newdate))
->orderBy('id', 'desc')
->count();
return view('users.dashboard', compact('users'));
}