this way work properly and I used it in many projects! for example I get data of views the last 30 days:
$viewsData = DB::table('page_views')
->where('page_id', $page->id)
->whereDate('created_at', '>=', now()->subDays(30))
->select(DB::raw('DATE(created_at) as data'), DB::raw('count(*) as views'))
->groupBy('date')
->get();
If you want to get the number of views based on different IPs, you can use the DISTINCT
like below :
$viewsData = DB::table('page_views')
->where('page_id', $page->id)
->whereDate('created_at', '>=', now()->subDays(30))
->select(DB::raw('DATE(created_at) as data'), DB::raw('count(DISTINCT user_ip) as visitors'))
->groupBy('date')
->get();
You can easily customize it by manipulating the columns name