Get only records created today in laravel

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()

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"

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For Laravel 5.6+ users, you can just do

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