Laravel Eloquent: How to get only certain columns from joined tables

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ralu picture ralu · Feb 6, 2013 · Viewed 192.3k times · Source

I have got 2 joined tables in Eloquent namely themes and users.

theme model:

public function user() {
  return $this->belongs_to('User');
}

user model:

public function themes() {
  return $this->has_many('Theme');
}

My Eloquent api call looks as below:

return Response::eloquent(Theme::with('user')->get());

Which returns all columns from theme (that's fine), and all columns from user (not fine). I only need the 'username' column from the user model, how can I limit the query to that?

Answer

user2317976 picture user2317976 · Apr 25, 2013

Change your model to specify what columns you want selected:

public function user() {
  return $this->belongs_to('User')->select(array('id', 'username'));
}

And don't forget to include the column you're joining on.

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