Laravel 5.1: handle joins with same column names

Question

I\'m trying to fetch following things from the database:

• user name
• user avatar_name
• user avatar_filetype
• complete conversation_messages<

Answer 1

I had the following problem, simplified example:

$result = Donation::join('user', 'user.id', '=', 'donation.user_id')->where('user.email', 'hello@papabello.com')->first();

$result is a collection of Donation models. BUT CAREFUL:

both tables, have a 'created_at' column. Now which created_at is displayed when doing $result->created_at ? i don't know. It seems that eloquent is doing an implicit select * when doing a join, returning models Donation but with additional attributes. created_at seems random. So what I really wanted, is a return of all Donation models of the user with email hello@papabello.com

solution is this:

$result = Donation::select('donation.*')->join('user', 'user.id', '=', 'donation.user_id')->where('user.email', 'hello@papabello.com')->first();