Laravel $q->where() between dates

Question

I am trying to get my cron to only get Projects that are due to recur/renew in the next 7 days to send out reminder emails. I\'ve just found out my logic doesn\

Answer 1

Didn't wan to mess with carbon. So here's my solution

$start = new \DateTime('now');
$start->modify('first day of this month');
$end = new \DateTime('now');
$end->modify('last day of this month');

$new_releases = Game::whereBetween('release', array($start, $end))->get();

Answer 2

You can chain your wheres directly, without function(q). There's also a nice date handling package in laravel, called Carbon. So you could do something like:

$projects = Project::where('recur_at', '>', Carbon::now())
    ->where('recur_at', '<', Carbon::now()->addWeek())
    ->where('status', '<', 5)
    ->where('recur_cancelled', '=', 0)
    ->get();

Just make sure you require Carbon in composer and you're using Carbon namespace (use Carbon\Carbon;) and it should work.

EDIT: As Joel said, you could do:

$projects = Project::whereBetween('recur_at', array(Carbon::now(), Carbon::now()->addWeek()))
    ->where('status', '<', 5)
    ->where('recur_cancelled', '=', 0)
    ->get();

Answer 3

@Tom : Instead of using 'now' or 'addWeek' if we provide date in following format, it does not give correct records

$projects = Project::whereBetween('recur_at', array(new DateTime('2015-10-16'), new DateTime('2015-10-23')))
->where('status', '<', 5)
->where('recur_cancelled', '=', 0)
->get();

it gives records having date form 2015-10-16 to less than 2015-10-23. If value of recur_at is 2015-10-23 00:00:00 then only it shows that record else if it is 2015-10-23 12:00:45 then it is not shown.

Answer 4

Edited: Kindly note that
whereBetween('date',$start_date,$end_date)
is inclusive of the first date.