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

You can supply an array of fields in the get parameter like so:

return Response::eloquent(Theme::with('user')->get(array('user.username'));

UPDATE (for Laravel 5.2) From the docs, you can do this:

$response = DB::table('themes')
    ->select('themes.*', 'users.username')
    ->join('users', 'users.id', '=', 'themes.user_id')
    ->get();