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Manish Chaudhary
Manish Chaudhary

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Laravel Tip: Correctly Counting Grouped Results

Avoid incorrect counts when using groupBy and having in Laravel queries. Here's the right way to get grouped counts.

If you're using groupBy and having in a Laravel query, be careful how you count the results.

🚫 Incorrect Way 

$query = User::query()
    ->select('role', DB::raw('count(*) as total'))
    ->groupBy('role')
    ->having('total', '>', 5);

$query->count(); // ❌ This ignores groupBy and having
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✅ Correct Way 

$query->toBase()
    ->getCountForPagination(); // ✅ Accurate count of grouped results
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Using toBase()->getCountForPagination() respects the groupBy and having parts of the query and returns the correct number of grouped records. This is especially useful when paginating grouped results or doing analytics.

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