Laravel 5 MongoDB Library get records from specific date

There is a really nice date handling package in laravel called Carbon that you could use with your queries. You could try using whereBetween if you want to query for records between a specific month, say April of 2015 based on a mongodb datetime field created_at:

$users = User::whereBetween('created_at', array(Carbon::createFromDate(2015, 4, 1), Carbon::createFromDate(2015, 4, 30)))->get();

Similarly, to get records from today, use Carbon's startOfDay() property:

$dt = Carbon::now()->startOfDay();
$users = User::where('created_at', '>', $dt)->get();

Another approach would be to use Eloquent which allows you to work with Carbon/DateTime objects instead of MongoDate objects. Example inspired from the docs:

<?php

use Jenssegers\Mongodb\Model as Eloquent;

class User extends Eloquent {

    use SoftDeletingTrait;

    /**
     * Collection for Model
     *
     * @var String
     */
    protected $collection = "users";

    /**
     * Connection for model
     *
     * @var type
     */
    protected $connection = 'mongodb';

    protected $dates = array('created_at');
}

Which allows you to execute queries like:

$users = User::where('created_at', '>', new DateTime('-1 day'))->get();

Or natively using MongoDate objects, you could try

$start = new MongoDate(strtotime("2015-04-01 00:00:00"));
$stop = new MongoDate(strtotime("2015-04-30 00:00:00"));

$users = DB::collection('users')->whereBetween('created_at', array($start, $stop))->get();