Laravel 8.73 – check if date has passed and skip loop

This is the idea of the filtering I need to do:

if ($course == 'specific-course') {
    $view = 'pages.course.specifc-course';
    $id = '8';
}

// get current date and time
$currentDate = date('Y-m-t h:m:s');

// get the course data from the database
$events = DB::table('eventaries')->where('category', $id)->get();

// HERE I NEED TO IMPLEMENT A WAY TO CHECK IF THE
// START OF THE EVENT HAS ALREADY PASSED AND
// THEN SKIP THE COURSE
foreach ($events as $event) {
    if ($event->start > $currentDate) {
        return view($view, [
            "events" => $events,
        ]);
    }
}

It grabs events from the database table eventaries and then gives out all based on the specifc $id aka. menu item of the website. But there is currently no way to filter if an event start date has passed the
$currentDate. I tried it with the above example but it still gives out all the events on the database. It needs to be passed as multiple $events (array) as I need to access it in a seperate blade and do the templating in there.

Here is how a blade would look like:

<div class="text-2xl">{{ $event->coursname }}</div>
<div>{{ $event->start }}, {{ $event->end }}</div>

So I already have the info about the start and can compare it to the $currentDate but for some reason this wont work.

>Solution :

If you only need the events that haven’t started yet, it’s going to be a better idea to add a where clause to your query rather than getting all of them and filtering them down in code:

$events = DB::table('eventaries')
    ->where('category', $id)
    ->where('start', '>', now())
    ->get();