Laravel Eloquent query get users from another model - php

Question

I have another table called tableb and it has a user relationship defined through the user_id field.
I want to run a query against tableb where a certain date is within a certain range but then I want to grab the user table associated with that row but I only want it to grab the user if it's not been grabbed yet. I'm trying to do this all in 1 DB query. I have most of it done, but I'm having trouble with the unique part of it.
Here's what I have right now:
$tableB = TableB::select('users.*')
->join('users', 'tableb.user_id', '=', 'users.id')
->where('tableb.start_date', '>', date('Y-m-d'))
->get();
So right now I have 3 entries in tableB from the same user, and ideally I'd like to only get 1 entry for that user.
How would I go about doing this?

Answer 1

Since you're selecting only users data, just add a groupBy clause in your query.
$tableB = TableB::select('users.*')
->join('users', 'tableb.user_id', '=', 'users.id')
->where('tableb.start_date', '>', date('Y-m-d'))
->groupBy('users.id')
->get();

Answer 2

You should just add groupBy like this :
$tableB = TableB::select('users.*')
->join('users', 'tableb.user_id', '=', 'users.id')
->where('tableb.start_date', '>', date('Y-m-d'))
->groupBy('users.id')
->get

Answer 3

Try This Code
App/user.php
public function getrelation(){
return $this->hasMany('App\tableB', 'user_id');
}
In Your Controller
Controller.php
use App/user;
public funtion filterByDate(user $user)
{
$date = '2016-02-01';
$result = $user->WhereHas('getrelation', function ($query) use($date) {
$query->whereDate('tableb.start_date', '>', $date)
->first();
});
}