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

Question

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

theme model:

public function user() {
  return $this->belongs_to(         


        

Answer 1

user2317976 has introduced a great static way of selecting related tables' columns.

Here is a dynamic trick I've found so you can get whatever you want when using the model:

return Response::eloquent(Theme::with(array('user' => function ($q) {
    $q->addSelect(array('id','username'))
}))->get();

I just found this trick also works well with load() too. This is very convenient.

$queriedTheme->load(array('user'=>function($q){$q->addSelect(..)});

Make sure you also include target table's key otherwise it won't be able to find it.