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

You should use the DB::raw() to concat those of field

Tenant::select(
          'Tenant_Id',
          DB::raw('CONCAT(First_Name,"-",Last_Name) as full_name')

        )
       ->orderBy('First_Name')
       ->lists('full_name', 'Tenant_Id');