I am trying to get my cron to only get Projects that are due to recur/renew in the next 7 days to send out reminder emails. I\'ve just found out my logic doesn\
You can chain your wheres directly, without function(q). There's also a nice date handling package in laravel, called Carbon. So you could do something like:
$projects = Project::where('recur_at', '>', Carbon::now())
->where('recur_at', '<', Carbon::now()->addWeek())
->where('status', '<', 5)
->where('recur_cancelled', '=', 0)
->get();
Just make sure you require Carbon in composer and you're using Carbon namespace (use Carbon\Carbon;) and it should work.
EDIT: As Joel said, you could do:
$projects = Project::whereBetween('recur_at', array(Carbon::now(), Carbon::now()->addWeek()))
->where('status', '<', 5)
->where('recur_cancelled', '=', 0)
->get();