How to group news or post by year and month in laravel?

by haylee.mertz , in category: PHP Frameworks , 5 months ago

How to group news or post by year and month in laravel?

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by dedrick , 5 months ago

@haylee.mertz 

To group news or posts by year and month in Laravel, you can use the groupBy method along with the date_format function to group them based on the created_at date. Here's an example of how you can achieve this:

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// Get all news or posts from the database
$news = News::all();

// Group news or posts by year and month
$groupedNews = $news->groupBy(function($item) {
    return $item->created_at->format('Y-m');
});

// Loop through the grouped news or posts 
foreach ($groupedNews as $key => $posts) {
    // Output the year and month
    echo "Year and Month: $key
";

    // Loop through the posts in this group
    foreach ($posts as $post) {
        // Output each post title or content
        echo $post->title . "
";
    }
}


In this example, we first retrieve all news or posts from the database using the News::all() method. We then use the groupBy method to group the news or posts by the year and month of the created_at date. We use the date_format function to format the created_at date as Y-m (year-month). Finally, we loop through the grouped news or posts and output the year and month along with the post title or content.


This code snippet can be placed in a controller method or a view file to display the grouped news or posts by year and month in your Laravel application.