Order By before Group By using Eloquent (Laravel)

Question

I have a \"messages\" table with the following columns

CREATE TABLE `messages` (
  `id` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
  `fromId` int(11) NOT NULL,
  `toId         


        

Answer 1

It should be something along this:

Message::whereToId($id)->groupBy('fromId')->latest('createdAt')->first();

Update

After seeing the query that you've added, you probably just need to add a direction to the orderBy function, like this:

$chats = Message::with('sender','recipient')
    ->select(DB::raw('*, max(createdAt) as createdAt'))
    ->where('toId',$id)
    ->orderBy('createdAt', 'desc')
    ->groupBy('fromId')
    ->paginate(10)