Laravel Eloquent: How to get only certain columns from joined tables

Question

I have got 2 joined tables in Eloquent namely themes and users.

theme model:

public function user() {
  return $this->belongs_to(         


        

Answer 1

Another option is to make use of the $hidden property on the model to hide the columns you don't want to display. You can define this property on the fly or set defaults on your model.

public static $hidden = array('password');

Now the users password will be hidden when you return the JSON response.

You can also set it on the fly in a similar manner.

User::$hidden = array('password');

Answer 2

This is how i do it

$posts = Post::with(['category' => function($query){
        $query->select('id', 'name');
      }])->get();

First answer by user2317976 did not work for me, i am using laravel 5.1

Answer 3

For Laravel >= 5.2

Use the ->pluck() method

$roles = DB::table('roles')->pluck('title');

If you would like to retrieve an array containing the values of a single column, you may use the pluck method

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For Laravel <= 5.1

Use the ->lists() method

$roles = DB::table('roles')->lists('title');

This method will return an array of role titles. You may also specify a custom key column for the returned array: