How to concatenate columns with Laravel 4 Eloquent?

Question

I have a table called tenantdetails which contains

Tenant_Id | First_Name | Last_Name | ........

and I want to retrieve Firs

Answer 1

An easy way is to use selectRaw. It was implemented by Tailor in Jan 30, 2014

Source

Tenant::selectRaw('CONCAT(First_Name, " ", Last_Name) as TenantFullName, id')->orderBy('First_Name')->lists('TenantFullName', 'id'))