Laravel Eloquent: How to get only certain columns from joined tables

Question

I have got 2 joined tables in Eloquent namely themes and users.

theme model:

public function user() {
  return $this->belongs_to(         


        

Answer 1

Change your model to specify what columns you want selected:

public function user() {
  return $this->belongs_to('User')->select(array('id', 'username'));
}

And don't forget to include the column you're joining on.