Laravel - Populating Select List with Derived Values

Question

I have an Eloquent model (Presenters) that has three columns: id, first_name and last_name. What I want to do is populate the select opti

Answer 1

You've provided the answer, look at the PaulDM reply

Just adapt it, hope it works for you:

// your eloquent model ...
public static function listPresenters() {
    $ret = [];
    foreach (self::all() as $presenter) {
        $ret[$presenter->id] = "{$presenter->first_name} {$presenter->last_name}";
    }
    return $ret;
}
// your eloquent model ...

Answer 2

Presenter::select('id', DB::raw('CONCAT(first_name, " ", last_name) AS full_name'))->lists('full_name', 'id');