Working on a widget design for the dashboard index

app/Http/Controllers/Admin/DashboardController.php

@@ -12,8 +12,11 @@
 namespace CachetHQ\Cachet\Http\Controllers\Admin;
 
 use CachetHQ\Cachet\Models\Component;
+use CachetHQ\Cachet\Models\Incident;
 use Illuminate\Routing\Controller;
+use Illuminate\Support\Facades\DB;
 use Illuminate\Support\Facades\View;
+use stdClass;
 
 class DashboardController extends Controller
 {
@@ -25,9 +28,11 @@ class DashboardController extends Controller
     public function showDashboard()
     {
         $components = Component::orderBy('order')->get();
+        $incidents = $this->getIncidents();
 
         return View::make('dashboard.index')
-            ->withComponents($components);
+            ->withComponents($components)
+            ->withIncidents($incidents);
     }
 
     /**
@@ -40,4 +45,24 @@ class DashboardController extends Controller
         return View::make('dashboard.notifications.index')
             ->withPageTitle(trans('dashboard.notifications.notifications').' '.trans('dashboard.dashboard'));
     }
+
+    /**
+     * Fetches all of the incidents over the last 30 days.
+     *
+     * @return \Illuminate\Support\Collection
+     */
+    protected function getIncidents()
+    {
+        $incidents = Incident::select(DB::raw('COUNT(id) AS counter'))->groupBy(DB::raw('DATE_FORMAT(created_at, "%d%m%y")'))->get();
+        $range = (30 - $incidents->count()) - 1;
+
+        $fake = new stdClass();
+        $fake->counter = 0;
+
+        foreach (range(1, $range) as $key) {
+            $incidents->prepend($fake);
+        }
+
+        return $incidents;
+    }
 }