Refactoring multiple same queries with different value - laravel

Question

Is there a better way to refactor this code? It's basically the same line with different values. I thought of doing a for loop but maybe there's another way.
$date = $request->date;
$underConsideration = Application::whereDate('created_at',$date)->where('status','Under consideration')->count();
$phoneScreened = Application::whereDate('created_at',$date)->where('status','Phone screened')->count();
$interviewed = Application::whereDate('created_at',$date)->where('status','Interviewed')->count();
$offerExtended = Application::whereDate('created_at',$date)->where('status','Offer extended')->count();

Answer 1

You should create a separate method for this.
public function myMethod()
{
$under_consideration = $this->fetchApplicationData($request, 'Under consideration');
$phone_screened = $this->fetchApplicationData($request, 'Phone screened');
$interviewed = $this->fetchApplicationData($request, 'Interviewed');
$offer_extended = $this->fetchApplicationData($request, 'Offer extended');
}
private function fetchApplicationData($request, $status)
{
return Application::
whereDate('created_at', $request->date)
->where('status', $status)
->count();
}
That is a much cleaner code.
However, I advise that you should put the items:
Under consideration, Phone screened, Interviewed, Offer extended
into a separate table on the database and just save the status_id on your main table.
One of the major advantage on this is the speed. For example, your client wants to know all record that has a status of Interviewed for a certain date span. Database searching against integer is a lot faster than string.

Answer 2

You could create a method to handle the select operations. Something like:
public function yourExisitingMethod() {
$date = $request->date;
$underConsideration = getData($date,'Under consideration');
$phoneScreened = getData($date,'Phone screened');
$interviewed = getData($date,'Interviewed');
$offerExtended = getData($date,'Offer extended');
}
public function getData($date, $status) {
$data = Application::whereDate('created_at',$date)->where('status',$status)->count();
return $data;
}
This would at the very least improve the maintainability of your code, and in my opinion improves reusability and readability.