Laravel - query data from mysql between dates

I am having an issue getting rows from my table using the below query, the expected behaviour is: user selects start/end date in a form, hits submit and the data passes to the function & it is then used in the query. The data from the form is coming in fine & I have verifed the dates are coming into the query, but for some reason the query always returns zero results? When I strip out the WHERE statement for the dates, the query works fine & produces results, so the issue is to do with the dates. $fromDate = $request->fromDate; $toDate = $request->toDate; $data = cc_table::all('*') ->where('link', '1') ->where('created_at', '>', $fromDate) ->where('created_at', '<', $toDate) ->toArray(); The dates from the form are formatted as dd/mm/yyyy, and the created_at date is a timestamp, however for testing I did change the created_at to be DATE (dd/mm/yyyy) however the query still returns zero rows. FYI - I am just using jquery datepicker on my form: $(function() { $( "#fromDate" ).datepicker(); }); </script>