How to merge Laravel objects in controller

Question

I have a controller where I want to combine data from multiple tables with parallel structures. What I want to end up with in the end is one object I can return from the contro

Answer 1

We can use collection as below

$admins = User::where('type', '=', 'admin')->get();

$authors = User::where('type', '=', 'author')->get();

$admin_author_collection = $admins->merge($authors);

Also, Please refer the various collection methods to below link

http://laravel.com/api/4.2/Illuminate/Database/Eloquent/Collection.html