[mysql] Get only records created today in laravel

How do I use the created_at field to get only the records that were created today and no other day or time?

I was thinking of a ->where('created_at', '>=', Carbon::now()) But Im not sure that would work.

with carbon:

return $model->where('created_at', '>=', \Carbon::today()->toDateString());

without carbon:

return $model->where('created_at', '>=', date('Y-m-d').' 00:00:00');

Below code worked for me

  $today_start = Carbon::now()->format('Y-m-d 00:00:00');
        $today_end = Carbon::now()->format('Y-m-d 23:59:59');

        $start_activity = MarketingActivity::whereBetween('created_at', [$today_start, $today_end])
                            ->orderBy('id', 'ASC')->limit(1)->get();

You can use whereRaw('date(created_at) = curdate()') if timezone is not a concern or whereRaw('date(created_at) = ?', [Carbon::now()->format('Y-m-d')] ) otherwise.

Since the created_at field is a timestamp, you need to get only the date part of it and ignore the time part.

$records = User::where('created_at' = CURDATE())->GET()); print($records);

If you are using Carbon (and you should, it's awesome!) with Laravel, you can simply do the following:

->where('created_at', '>=', Carbon::today())

Besides now() and today(), you can also use yesterday() and tomorrow() and then use the following:

• startOfDay()/endOfDay()
• startOfWeek()/endOfWeek()
• startOfMonth()/endOfMonth()
• startOfYear()/endOfYear()
• startOfDecade()/endOfDecade()
• startOfCentury()/endOfCentury()

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());

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'));

Use Mysql default CURDATE function to get all the records of the day.

    $records = DB::table('users')->select(DB::raw('*'))
                  ->whereRaw('Date(created_at) = CURDATE()')->get();
    dd($record);

Note

The difference between Carbon::now vs Carbon::today is just time.

e.g

Date printed through Carbon::now will look like something:

2018-06-26 07:39:10.804786 UTC (+00:00)

While with Carbon::today:

2018-06-26 00:00:00.0 UTC (+00:00)

To get the only records created today with now can be fetched as:

Post::whereDate('created_at', Carbon::now()->format('m/d/Y'))->get();

while with today:

Post::whereDate('created_at', Carbon::today())->get();

UPDATE

As of laravel 5.3, We have default where clause whereDate / whereMonth / whereDay / whereYear

$users = User::whereDate('created_at', DB::raw('CURDATE()'))->get();

OR with DB facade

$users = DB::table('users')->whereDate('created_at', DB::raw('CURDATE()'))->get();

Usage of the above listed where clauses

$users = User::whereMonth('created_at', date('m'))->get();
//or you could also just use $carbon = \Carbon\Carbon::now(); $carbon->month;
//select * from `users` where month(`created_at`) = "04"
$users = User::whereDay('created_at', date('d'))->get();
//or you could also just use $carbon = \Carbon\Carbon::now(); $carbon->day;
//select * from `users` where day(`created_at`) = "03"
$users = User::whereYear('created_at', date('Y'))->get();
//or you could also just use $carbon = \Carbon\Carbon::now(); $carbon->year;
//select * from `users` where year(`created_at`) = "2017"

Query Builder Docs

No need to use Carbon::today because laravel uses function now() instead as a helper function

So to get any records that have been created today you can use the below code:

Model::whereDay('created_at', now()->day)->get();

You need to use whereDate so created_at will be converted to date.

$today = Carbon\Carbon::now()->format('Y-m-d').'%';
->where('created_at', 'like', $today);

Hope it will help you

Laravel ^5.6 - Query Scopes

For readability purposes i use query scope, makes my code more declarative.

scope query

namespace App\Models;

use Illuminate\Support\Carbon;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;

class MyModel extends Model
{
    // ...

    /**
     * Scope a query to only include today's entries.
     *
     * @param  \Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Builder  $query
     * @return \Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Builder
     */
    public function scopeCreatedToday($query)
    {
        return $query->where('created_at', '>=', Carbon::today());
    }

    // ...
}

example of usage

MyModel::createdToday()->get()

SQL generated

Sql      : select * from "my_models" where "created_at" >= ?

Bindings : ["2019-10-22T00:00:00.000000Z"]