How to alias a table in Laravel Eloquent queries (or using Query Builder)?

Question

Lets say we are using Laravel\'s query builder:

$users = DB::table(\'really_long_table_name\')
           ->select(\'really_long_table_name.id\')
                 


        

Answer 1

Laravel supports aliases on tables and columns with AS. Try

$users = DB::table('really_long_table_name AS t')
           ->select('t.id AS uid')
           ->get();

Let's see it in action with an awesome tinker tool

$ php artisan tinker
[1] > Schema::create('really_long_table_name', function($table) {$table->increments('id');});
// NULL
[2] > DB::table('really_long_table_name')->insert(['id' => null]);
// true
[3] > DB::table('really_long_table_name AS t')->select('t.id AS uid')->get();
// array(
//   0 => object(stdClass)(
//     'uid' => '1'
//   )
// )