Laravel sub-query - mysql

Question

I have a database that looks like this:👇👇
images 🌅
| id | name | src | status |
| ------------- |---------------| ------------| ----------|
| 1 | nice sun set | 1020288.jpg | published |
| 2 | poor sun set | 1120288.jpg | published |
| 3 | best sun set | 3120288.jpg | deleted |
| ------------- |---------------| ------------| --------- |
image_views 👀
| id | image_id | browser_id🌎 | created_at |
| ------------- |---------------| ------------ | ------------------ |
| 1 | 2 | 1020288e3221 |2020-02-23 13:55:11 |
| 2 | 1 | 1120288221ww |2020-02-27 13:50:51 |
| ------------- |---------------| ------------ | ------------------ |
Now in my laravel App,
I want to get the most viewed image in the PAST last 7 days.
( i want to have a column of image_views and those views 👀 should be grouped by browser id ).
so here is what i have tried:👇👇
$image_views = DB::table('image_views')
->selectRaw('count(*) as view_count')
->where(function($query){
$query->where('image_views.image_id', 'images.id');
$query->whereDate('image_views.created_at', '>=', Carbon::now()->subDays(7)->toDateTimeString() );
});
$image = Image::select(['images.*', DB::raw('(' . $image_views->toSql() . ') as views ')])
->limit(1)
->orderBy('views', 'desc')
->where('images.status','published')
->mergeBindings($image_views)
->get();
return $image;
So unfortunately the posted above☝☝ code does not work😩
It only return blank results.
By the way i have lot of views in image_views table starting from 2⃣0⃣1⃣9⃣ to now, just that i couldn't post all here..
THE FUNNY THING IS THAT IF I CONVERT IT TO SQL AND PASTE IT IN PHPMYADMIN IT WORKS LIKE A CHARM
return $image->toSql();
//->mergeBindings($image_views)
//->get();
PLEASE SOMEONE TELL ME WHAT I AM DOING WRONG IN LARAVEL!!🙌

Answer 1

Given images & image_views tables
$mostViewdImage = DB::table('image_views')
->join('images', 'image_views.image_id', '=', 'images.id')
->select('browser_id', DB::raw('count(image_id) as occurrence'), 'images.*')
->where('image_views.created_at', '>=', Carbon::now()->subDays(7)->toDateTimeString())
->groupBy('image_id', 'browser_id')
->orderByRaw('occurrence DESC')->first();
dump($mostViewdImage);
//Output
"select `browser_id`, count(image_id) as occurrence, `images`.* from `image_views` inner join `images` on `image_views`.`image_id` = `images`.`id` where `image_views`.`created_at` >= ? group by `image_id`, `browser_id` order by occurrence DESC limit 1" (2.02 s)
{#261 ▼
+"browser_id": "1020288e3221"
+"occurrence": 2
+"id": 2
+"name": "poor sun set"
+"src": "1120288.jpg"
+"status": "published"
}