Query for retrieving data records for a specific date range in Laravel 4

Question

I have a table having record_date and corresponding amount field.I was trying to retrieve total amount grouping by the months of the date .

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Answer 1

I would avoid using Eloquent for a more complex query such as this. Just stick with the query builder:

$data = DB::table('table_name')
  ->select(DB::raw('MONTH(record_date)'),DB::raw('YEAR(record_date)'),DB::raw('SUM(amount)'))
  ->where('record_date', '>', DB::raw('DATE_SUB(now(), INTERVAL 6 MONTH)'))
  ->groupBy(DB::raw('YEAR(record_date)'))
  ->groupBy(DB::raw('MONTH(record_date)'))
  ->get();

Unfortunately, since you are using so many MySQL functions, you need to add in a lot of DB::raw methods. But it should work. This is untested but it should be very close.