MongoDB Raw query to select documents which are in given datetime period

Question

I want to select documents which are in user given date time period like between :

$from_date : "2017-01-07 09:08:59" To `$to_date : "2017-08-09 09:08:59"` 

I'm using laravel framework and jenssegers/laravel-mongodb mongodb driver to run my query, And this is my Raw query :

 $normal_banners = BannerView::raw(function ($collection) use ($id, $from_date, $to_date) {
      $conditions = [
         ["camp_id" => ['$eq' => $id]],
         ['$or' => [
              ['seat_target_status' => ['$eq' => true]],
              ['seat_target_status' => ['$eq' => false]]
         ]],
         ['camp_target_status' => ['$eq' => false]],
         ];

         if ($from_date) {
            $conditions[] = ['created_at' => ['$gte' => $from_date]];
         }

         return $collection->aggregate([
            ['$match' => ['$and' => $conditions]],
         ]);
    })->count();

But my problem is that it returns 0 as result; while there are 16 documents in this time period.

I've tried this method to get the count of them but still 0 result :

   $normal_banners = BannerView::Where('camp_id', $id)
        ->where(function ($query) {$query->where('seat_target_status', true)->orWhere('seat_target_status', false);
           })
        ->where('camp_target_status', false)
        ->where("created_at", ">=", $from_date)
        ->count();

FYI : I've converted datetime of input to ISODate Which is the mongodb datatype for created_at field.

$Fromdatetime = $request->input('from_date');
$from_date = new DateTime($Fromdatetime);
$from_date = $from_date->format(DateTime::ISO8601);

mongodb field data type is :

 "updated_at": ISODate("2017-04-10T09:35:58.641Z"),
   "created_at": ISODate("2017-04-10T09:35:58.641Z")

My input data type is : "2017-01-07T09:08:59+0000"

Any suggestion ?

Answer 1

You have to "put in braces" orWhere function and in your raw query you are testing $to_date with updated_at column, but in Eloquent code you are making between with created_at column

$targeted_banners = BannerView::Where('camp_id', $id)
  ->where(function($query){$query->where('seat_target_status', true)->orWhere('seat_target_status', false);})
  ->where('camp_target_status', false)
  ->where("created_at", ">=" $from_date)
  ->where("updated_at", "<=", $to_date)
  ->count();

Answer 2

I've solved this problem using Carbon::createDateFrom method, it create a UTC date time base on my input :

Inputs :

{
  "from_date": "2017-03-10",
  "to_date": "2017-04-09"
}

Converting input dates :

$from_date_arr = explode("-",$request->input('from_date'));
$from_date = Carbon::createFromDate($from_date_arr[0],$from_date_arr[1],$from_date_arr[2]);

$to_date_arr = explode("-",$request->input('to_date'));
$to_date = Carbon::createFromDate($to_date_arr[0],$to_date_arr[1],$to_date_arr[2]);

And This is the query I run which worked :

$normal_banners = BannerView::Where('camp_id', $id)
    ->where(function ($query) {$query->where('seat_target_status', true)->orWhere('seat_target_status', false);
         })
    ->where('camp_target_status', false)
    ->where("created_at", ">=",$from_date)
    ->where("created_at", "<=",$to_date)
    ->count();

There is a strange problem still with jessenger driver which whereBetween is not working and we should use two where clause to make it work.

Hope solves others problem.