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

Nowadays you can use

$new_collection = $collection->merge($other_collection).

This works in Laravel 4 and seems to handle both arrays and collections.

Answer 2

You could simply use array_merge(firstObject,secondObject) function.

$obj = array_merge($mc, $sm);
return $obj;

Answer 3

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

Answer 4

What you can do here is merge the arrays of the two query result and then use the Response with json output like shown below.

$array = array_merge($mc->toArray(), $sm->toArray());
return Response::json($array);

Answer 5

Route::get('test', function(){
    $rank = Rank::get();
    $policy = Policy::get();
    $obj = (object)array_merge_recursive((array)$rank , (array)$policy);
    var_dump($obj);
});

This is working for me. Instead of array_merge use array_merge_recursive().