How to alias in Laravel Eager Loading

Question

I need to alias when I do a Laravel eager loading:

$posts = Post::with(array(\'images as main_image\' => function($query) // do not run
            {
             


        

Answer 1

I don't think you can do that with Eloquent, but there would be a few work-arounds that might work.

If you are using PHP 5.6, it's possible to alias the function.

use function images as main_image;

If you are using a version of PHP less than that, you can create a main_image() function and have it call images().

public function main_image()
{
    return $this->images();
}