Laravel Eloquent hasMany Relation with Grouping and Sorting - laravel

Question

I am using Laravel 5.6 and would like to get a collection of featured articles published in the last 2 weeks sorted by the number of views over the last week. Ideally using pagination on the model.
DB:
author (id, name, ....)
article (id, title, content, publish_date, ...)
article_view (id, article_id, date, views)
featured_article (id, article_id, created_at)
Models
class Author extends Model
{
protected $table = 'author';
public function articles()
{
return $this->hasMany(Article::class,'id','author_id');
}
}
class Article extends Model
{
protected $table = 'article';
public function author()
{
return $this->hasOne(Author::class,'id','author_id');
}
}
class FeaturedArticle extends Model
{
protected $table = 'featured_article';
static public function getFeaturedArticles($limit)
{
$articles = FeaturedArticles::where('created_at', '>=', Carbon::now()->subDays(14))->with(['article.author','article.articleViews'])->paginate($limit);
}
}
Then in the Controller or Feature or Job
$featured_articles = FeaturedArticle::getFeaturedArticles(15);
This works fine, but the results aren't sorted yet. How to sort the paginated results by the sum of article_view.views over 7 days. Is it possible?

Answer 1

Assuming you want the most viewed article first:
class FeaturedArticle extends Model
{
public function articleViews() {
return $this->hasMany(ArticleView::class, 'article_id', 'article_id');
}
}
$articles = FeaturedArticle::where('created_at', '>=', Carbon::today()->subDays(14))
->withCount(['articleViews' => function($query) {
$query->select(DB::raw('sum(views)'))
->where('date', '>=', Carbon::today()->subDays(7));
}])
->orderByDesc('article_views_count')
->with('article.author', 'article.articleViews')
->paginate($limit);
I replaced Carbon::now() with Carbon::today(). Otherwise, you wouldn't get articles that were published 14 days ago before the time of now().
Also, your relationships are incorrect:
public function articles()
{
return $this->hasMany(Article::class, 'author_id', 'id');
}
public function author()
{
return $this->belongsTo(Author::class, 'author_id', 'id');
}