Get most recent row with group by and Laravel

Question

Even though there are multiple questions like this I can\'t get my query to return the row with the most recent date with a group by.

I have the following table..

Answer 1

The problem is that the result set will be first grouped then ordered. You can use nested select to get what you want.

SQL Query:

SELECT t.* FROM (SELECT * FROM messages ORDER BY created_at DESC) t GROUP BY t.from

With Laravel:

$messages = Message::select(DB::raw('t.*'))
            ->from(DB::raw('(SELECT * FROM messages ORDER BY created_at DESC) t'))
            ->groupBy('t.from')
            ->get();

You just need to add your where() clauses.