how to check current date is between two dates in laravel 5.4

Question

I have a table

    +---------------------+-----------
    | id | start_date     |  End_date |
    +---------------------+-----------+
    |   1  | 2017-07-07   | 2017-07-31|
    |   2  | 2017-08-01   | 2017-08-31|
    |   3  | 2017-09-01   | 2017-09-10|
    |  
    +------+--------------+-----------+

And I want to select dates between two dates.I have a query

 SELECT * FROM Financial_Year WHERE CURDATE() between `start_date` and `End_date`

I want to convert this query to laravel so i tried this

 $dt = Carbon::now();
 $getmonths= DB::table('Financial_Year')
                    ->whereBetween($dt, ['start_date', 'End_date'])->get();

But i didn't get output.Any help would be appreciated.

Answer 1

Here you can use laravel whereRaw() to achieve this.

Just like this

$dt = Carbon::now();
$getmonths= DB::table('Financial_Year')
    ->whereRaw('"'.$dt.'" between `start_date` and `End_date`')
    ->get();

Answer 2

You can use Carbon native function for this:

http://carbon.nesbot.com/docs/

$first = Carbon::create(2012, 9, 5, 1);
$second = Carbon::create(2012, 9, 5, 5);
var_dump(Carbon::create(2012, 9, 5, 3)->between($first, $second));  // bool(true)
var_dump(Carbon::create(2012, 9, 5, 5)->between($first, $second));  // bool(true)

Answer 3

If you want to use only Laravel Query Builder maybe you could try:

$date_start = Carbon::now()->startOfYear();
$date_end = Carbon::now()->endOfYear();

$query = Model::where('created_at', '<=', $date_end)
        ->where('created_at', '>=', $date_start)
        ->get();

In the variables of date_start and date_end you will put the range you want to use. Maybe is during the same month, during the same year or you could use:

$date = Carbon::create(2012, 9, 5, 5);

to determine the date manually.