laravel-eloquent

I want only return the id , name and pic_thumbnail column of the Eloquent ORM collections result. I use only() on the result of get() . But I always get the empty collection. public function models() { if(!isset($_SESSION["uid"])) return Response::json(['error' => 'please login.']); $models = Model::where('user_id', $_SESSION["uid"])->get(); Log::info($models); Log::info($models->only(['id', 'name'])); Log::info($models->only(['id', 'name'])->all()); foreach($models as $model){ $pic = $model->pics()->orderBy('displayorder')->first(); if($pic == null) $model->pic_thumbnail = 'static/thumbnail

I haven't had much luck sorting this out the Laravel way. So I pose two questions. Given that I have a Car and that Car can have many Features, but that Features are also separated by Feature Type, how can I return all Features, separated the Feature Type, for said Car? I have four tables, with listings_features being the pivot table: listings (id) listings_features (listing_id, feature_id) listings_features_types (id, type) listings_features_values (id, listing_feature_type_id, value) I have the following code, which produces what I need, but when I use it, I get a Laravel error ... "Call to

I have a text file that contains comma delineated values representing data set with each row within the string. There are about 2 million of them and I want to parse the string, create Laravel models from them and store each as a row in my database. At this time, I have a class that parses the file line by line and creates a model for each as follows: class LargeFileParser{ // File Reference protected $file; // Check if file exists and create File Object public function __construct($filename, $mode="r"){ if(!file_exists($filename)){ throw new Exception("File not found"); } $this->file = new

When I use db raw, it works My query is using db raw like this : $products = DB::select(DB::raw('SELECT * FROM ( SELECT a.*, b.name AS store_name, b.address FROM products a JOIN stores b ON b.id = a.store_id WHERE a.category_id = '.$category_id.' ORDER BY a.total_sold DESC, a.updated_at DESC LIMIT '.$num.' ) AS product GROUP BY store_id')); It works. But I want to change it use laravel eloquent I try like this : $products = Product::where('category_id', '=', $category_id) ->with('store') ->groupBy('store_id') ->orderBy('total_sold','desc') ->orderBy('updated_at', 'desc') ->take($num) ->get();