How to alias the name of a column in Eloquent

Question

I have an eloquent model named Eloquent:

Products::where(\"actice\", \"=\", true)->get()->toArray();

Now I want to add join-statement

Answer 1

Simplest way to do this would be to add the fields you need to the get() method and alias the ones you want to rename there.

Products::where("actice", "=", true)
    ->joinWithTags
    ->get(['tags.name AS tag_name', 'products.*'])
    ->toArray();

Answer 2

There is also a cleaner way to achieve this

You can take advantage of laravel mutators

public function getTagNameAttribute()
{
    return $this->attributes['name'];
}

Hope this helps

Answer 3

On Laravel 5.4 (I don't know if earlier version also apply) you can do that with the select method:

Products::where("actice", "=", true)
    ->joinWithTags
    ->select('tags.name AS tag_name', 'products.*')
    ->get();

At least for me this is cleaner.