Laravel: Nesting query join results in a sub array

Question

NOTE Please do not suggest using Eloquent, this is specifically for the Laravel query builder.

For performance reasons we are using Query Builder to

Answer 1

Dont think its doable out of the box without Eloquent.

You can go the primitive route:

$results = DB:table('posts')
    ->leftJoin('comments', 'posts.id', '=', 'comments.post_id')
    ->select('posts.*', 'comments.*', 'comments.id as comments_id')
    ->get(); 

foreach($results as &$result) 
{ 
    $result['comment'] = [
        'id' => $result['comment_id'], 
        'comment' => $result['comment'], 
        'comment_author' => $result['comment_author']
    ]; 
    unset($result['comment_author'], $result['comment_id']);
}