This short post explains how to sort a Drupal collection by date. We’ll put into practice a how to sort date collection in Laravel in this tutorial. Let’s talk about the date-based Laravel collection order. I gave a brief explanation of how to sort a Laravel collection by date desc. See the following tutorial step for an example of sorting a collection by date in Drupal.

To sort the Laravel collection by date, we will utilize the sortBy() method. I’ll give you two easy examples with output so you can have a better understanding. Now, let’s look at some basic examples:

Example 1:

controller code

<?php
     
namespace App\Http\Controllers;
    
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
    
class UserController extends Controller
{
    /**
     * Display a listing of the resource.
     *
     * @return \Illuminate\Http\Response
     */
    public function index(Request $request)
    {
        $collection = collect([
            ['id' => 1, 'name' => 'avinash', 'created_at' => '2023-11-06'],
            ['id' => 2, 'name' => 'roshan', 'created_at' => '2023-11-10'],
            ['id' => 3, 'name' => 'Rakesh', 'created_at' => '2023-11-05'],
            ['id' => 4, 'name' => 'abhishek', 'created_at' => '2023-11-04'],
        ]);
  
        $sorted = $collection->sortBy('created_at');
  
        $sorted = $sorted->all();
      
        dd($sorted);
    }
}

OutPut:

Array
(
    [3] => Array
        (
            [id] => 4
            [name] => abhishek
            [created_at] => 2023-11-04

        )

    [2] => Array

        (
            [id] => 3
            [name] => Rakesh
            [created_at] => 2023-11-05
        )

    [0] => Array

        (
            [id] => 1
            [name] => avinash
            [created_at] => 2023-11-06
        )

    [1] => Array

        (
            [id] => 2
            [name] => roshan
            [created_at] => 2023-11-10
        )
)

Example 2:

Controller code

<?php
     
namespace App\Http\Controllers;
    
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
    
class UserController extends Controller
{
    /**
     * Display a listing of the resource.
     *
     * @return \Illuminate\Http\Response
     */
    public function index(Request $request)
    {
        $collection = collect(['2023-11-06', '2023-11-10', '2023-11-05', '2023-11-04']);
    
        $sorted = $collection->sortBy(function ($date) {
            return \Carbon\Carbon::createFromFormat('Y-m-d', $date);
        });
      
        $sorted = $sorted->all();
      
        dd($sorted);
    }
}

OutPut:

Array(  
  [3] => 2023-11-04  
  [2] => 2023-11-05   
  [0] => 2023-11-06  
  [1] => 2023-11-10
  )