Sorting data with Eloquent

Question

I\'m new to laravel (switched from CI) and eloquent ORM is still a bit of a mystery at some point!

Here is my problem :

I\'d like to sort data from my db usi

Answer 1

I just ran into the same problem on a project I am developing. Everywhere I looked I saw the usort() or uasort() as the suggested way to solve this problem. (Collection::sort() is just a wrapper for uasort()) but that did not satisfy me because why would I use PHP to sort when SQL should do it for me with an ORDER BY clause??? I ended up implementing it this way using an getXXXAttribute() method:

class Post extends Eloquent {
    public function comments()
    {
        return $this->hasMany('Comment');
    }

    public function getCommentsAttribute()
    {
        $comments = $this->comments()->getQuery()->orderBy('created_at', 'desc')->get();
        return $comments;
    }
    ...
}