Laravel Eloquent Group By Example

In this short tutorial we will cover an laravel eloquent group by example. we will help you to give example of laravel group by example. you will learn laravel group by query builder. you can understand a concept of group by query in laravel eloquent.

Here, simple example of group by in laravel 6, laravel 7, laravel 8, laravel 9 and laravel 10.

In this example i will give you very simple example of how to use groupBy() in laravel application. you can easily use it with laravel 6 and laravel 7 application.

groupBy() will help you to getting data with group and you can count number records on that group.

So, let’s see bellow examples that will help you how to use groupBy() and groupBy() eloquent query in laravel.

Example 1:

SQL Query:

select *, count(*) as user_count 
	from `users` group by `status`

Laravel Query:

<?php
  
namespace App\Http\Controllers;
  
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use App\User;
use DB;
   
class UserController extends Controller
{
    /**
     * Display a listing of the resource.
     *
     * @return \Illuminate\Http\Response
     */
    public function index()
    {
        $users = User::select("*", DB::raw("count(*) as user_count"))
                        ->groupBy('status')
                        ->get();
  
        dd($users);
    }
}

Output:

Array
(
    [0] => Array
        (
            [id] => 7
            [name] => Prof. Kelly Kilback
            [email] => [email protected]
            [country_id] => 
            [email_verified_at] => 2020-07-01T09:34:13.000000Z
            [created_at] => 2020-07-01T09:34:13.000000Z
            [updated_at] => 2020-07-01T09:34:13.000000Z
            [status] => 0
            [first_name] => 
            [last_name] => 
            [point] => 
            [points] => 45
            [amount] => 45
            [user_count] => 197
        )
    [1] => Array
        (
            [id] => 1
            [name] => Prof. Josiane Jast MD
            [email] => [email protected]
            [country_id] => 1
            [email_verified_at] => 2020-07-01T09:34:13.000000Z
            [created_at] => 2020-07-03T09:34:13.000000Z
            [updated_at] => 2020-07-01T09:34:13.000000Z
            [status] => 1
            [first_name] => 
            [last_name] => 
            [point] => 
            [points] => 0
            [amount] => 1000
            [user_count] => 6
        )
)

Example 2: Get Group By with Year

Laravel Query:

<?php
  
namespace App\Http\Controllers;
  
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use App\User;
use DB;
  
class UserController extends Controller
{
    /**
     * Display a listing of the resource.
     *
     * @return \Illuminate\Http\Response
     */
    public function index()
    {
        $users = User::select("*", DB::raw("count(*) as user_count"))
                        ->groupBy(DB::raw("year(created_at)"))
                        ->get();
  
        dd($users);
    }
}

I hope it can help you…