Let’s say you want to filter out entries created today. You have a timestamp field created_at, right? How do you filter the DATE only from that timestamp? Apparently, Taylor thought about it.
I’ve seen people doing it with raw queries, like this:
$q->where(DB::raw("DATE(created_at) = '".date('Y-m-d')."'"));
Or without raw queries by datetime, like this:
$q->where('created_at', '>=', date('Y-m-d').' 00:00:00'));
Luckily, Laravel Query Builder offers a more Eloquent solution:
$q->whereDate('created_at', '=', date('Y-m-d'));
Or, of course, instead of PHP date() you can use Carbon:
$q->whereDate('created_at', '=', Carbon::today()->toDateString());
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Wait, there’s more
It’s not only whereDate. There are three more useful functions to filter out dates:
$q->whereDay('created_at', '=', date('d'));
$q->whereMonth('created_at', '=', date('m'));
$q->whereYear('created_at', '=', date('Y'));
Isn’t it nice and easy?
The only thing is if you’re dealing with timezones, you should totally use Carbon and make some more complex queries, but that’s a topic for a whole another article.
Video version
You can watch how it works – in my video WhereX Magic Methods for Fields and Dates.
It’s a free lesson from my online-course Eloquent: Expert Level.
If the created_at is a date with time, ate the also some shortcuts so check for a specific time? Maybe something like “lastHour()”?
Best regards
Thanks for question Simon. Look into file
vendor\laravel\framework\src\illuminate\database\query\builder.php from line 902 – there are only those functions I’ve mentioned, I’m afraid.
can you also make a whereMonth = month -1? (= last month?)
your parameter month can be anything, so if you pass (month – 1) as a parameter, pre-calculating it, then it should work.
Note that :
– There are no methods such as “orWhereDate / orWhereDay …”
– PostgreSQL : query->where(‘created_at’, ‘>=’, $carbonDate); works fine
– PostgreSQL : query->whereDays(‘created_at’, ‘>=’, $numberOfDays); doesn’t work
Excellent simple instruction.
How would you do a Date between … AND …?
Hello
I have install the laravel properly in my local system use a wamp server
some error are showing on my screen please help me how to solve it.
“Symfony \ Component \ HttpKernel \ Exception \ NotFoundHttpException”
Hi ,
How can I compare with timestamps based on month and year in laravel ??
eg – where(FROM_UNIXTIME(pubdate, ‘%Y’), ‘=’, 2016)
here pubdate is ‘1456313400’
Very useful article, thank you.
I’m having some trouble though. the date field which I’m comparing against (‘created_at’) is encrypted and none of the above methods work in this situation.
Is there a workaround that you can think of?
This should be now
$q->whereRaw(DB::raw(“DATE(created_at) = ‘”.date(‘Y-m-d’).”‘”));
This is the solution that i was looking for, thanks alot
thanks man!
Thanks and this helped me to figure out where the bug was in the code…
I’ve written my own way of doing this in the past. I’m curious to see which one is faster, but this gets me up and running very quickly. Thank you for pointing this out. Somehow it was much easier to find your post, but there is a list of stuff here if anyone wants more…. https://laravel.com/docs/5.4/queries
Thank you man , That helped me a lot in my project
Thanks. Very Useful.
If you use Carbon::now()->toDateString() you could have problems with the query, with laravel methods like “withtrash()” it won’t work well.
Is better and it’s works:
$q->whereDate(‘created_at’, ‘=’, Carbon::today());
how write simple condition?
where date_format(tt.datetime, “%Y-%m-%d”) = “2017-12-30”
I have a Contract table with 2 datetime fields:
– valid_from
– valid_to
and I have to display contracts that are valid into AAAA-MM interval. For example 2018-02.
Any suggestion?
Many thanks!
Thank you,
You just saved me from an awkward usage of whereRaw.
How about database indexes? running a DATE(column) is not performing a range index use…