Laravel Carbon subtract days from current date

Question

I am trying to extract objects from Model "Users" whose created_at date has been more than 30 days from today.

Carbon::now() ==> I want as ==> Carbon::now() - 30days

$users = Users::where('status_id', 'active')
               ->where( 'created_at', '<', Carbon::now())
               ->get();

How can this be achieved ?

Zielinski

Answer 1

Use subDays() method:

$users = Users::where('status_id', 'active')
           ->where( 'created_at', '>', Carbon::now()->subDays(30))
           ->get();

Monogamist

Are you sure about changing '<' to '>' for getting users created more than 30 days ago? – Blondell

my condition is that current date is more than 30 days from current date. I guess this logic does the task for me – Zielinski

@AlexeyMezenin That's what the original asker is looking for; using today as an example (December 13th), "more than 30 days from today" would be users created before November 13th. – Blondell

I guess his more means later here. Also Carbon::now() ==> I want as ==> Carbon::now() - 30days pretty much explains what OP wants. – Monogamist

Aah yes... sorry I guess I was not clear. Yes "later" is what i meant – Zielinski

subDays(30) is correct but I think it should be < to get users created more than 30 days ago. Upvoted the answer anyway because of correct method. – Kanpur

The answer doesn't need to be changed because subDays() subtract days. For example, today is 24-Nov-2019 and subDays(30) would return the date 24-Oct-2019. Thus if the comparison is < (less than) the result would be all records prior from 24-Oct-2019 but what OP want is later from that date and only want 30-day records. The answer is perfect! – Fushih

As a note to remember you should reset H M S also to 00:00:00 or you are going to get the time difference against a Timestamp / Date Time field. so add ->endOfDay() or ->hour(0)->minute(0)->second(0) or in the date setup date('Y-m-d 00:00:00') – Plastometer

Are you sure it's not '<' – Calistacalisthenics

Answer 2

From Laravel 5.6 you can use whereDate:

$users = Users::where('status_id', 'active')
       ->whereDate( 'created_at', '>', now()->subDays(30))
       ->get();

You also have whereMonth / whereDay / whereYear / whereTime

Subtile

I like this one since it's using the now() helper. – Hulett

Answer 3

You can always use strtotime to minus the number of days from the current date:

$users = Users::where('status_id', 'active')
           ->where( 'created_at', '>', date('Y-m-d', strtotime("-30 days"))
           ->get();

Wordbook

could make it date('Y-m-d 00:00:00', strtotime("-30 days") to be more tidy – Plastometer

Answer 4

As with strtotime or DateTime, any (relative) date expressions can also be used with carbon::parse.

$users = Users::where('status_id', 'active')
           ->where( 'created_at', '>', Carbon::parse('Now -30 days'))
           ->get();

Alternatively for 'Now -30 Days', expressions '-30days' or '-720 hours' are also possible.

'Now -30 Days' takes into account the current time. If you need a time 00:00, use 'Today -30 Days'.

Including