Select Date From DateTime In Query - Yii2

Question

I'm having one event table. In which, due date of event is being stored in datetime format. But, due to some change of requirement, now we need to show only date (excluding time) from due date column.

Event (Table)

id | user_id | description |       due_date          | is_completed

1      8        My Event1    2016-08-09 19:16:00          0
2      8        My Event2    2016-08-09 19:53:00          0

I wanted to show all event in date wise. Like all event under 2016-08-09.

So, I tried with this query.

$upcoming_events = Events::find()->select(['due_date'])->distinct()
           ->where(['user_id' => Yii::$app->users->getId(),'is_completed'=> 0 ])
           ->andWhere(['>=','due_date',date("Y-m-d")])
          ->orderBy(['due_date'=>'ASC'])->limit(5)->all();

But, now 2 dates are being selected as 2016-08-09 19:16:00 & 2016-08-09 19:53:00. Since, date part is not being fetched from select statement. It is showing 2 times same date.

var_dump($upcoming_events);

[1] => app\Events Object
  (
    [_attributes:yii\db\BaseActiveRecord:private] => Array
        (
            [due_date] => 2016-08-09 19:16:00
        )
  )

[2] => app\Events Object
(

  [_attributes:yii\db\BaseActiveRecord:private] => Array
  (
      [due_date] => 2016-08-09 19:53:00
  )
)

How can I retrieve only date from date time field to get only 1 date in Yii2 Query.

Any help/hint/suggestions is appreciable.

Answer 1

You can also use only the date part

 upcoming_events = Events::find()->select('date(due_date) as due_date')->distinct()
       ->where(['user_id' => Yii::$app->users->getId(),'is_completed'=> 0 ])
       ->andWhere(['>=','due_date',date("Y-m-d")])
      ->orderBy(['due_date'=>'ASC'])->limit(5)->all();

Answer 2

You can simply use this example,

YourModelName::find()->where(['date(timestamp)' => php('Y-m-d')]->one(); 

Here date will be fetched from timestamp column.