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

Another option is to make use of the $hidden property on the model to hide the columns you don't want to display. You can define this property on the fly or set defaults on your model.

public static $hidden = array('password');

Now the users password will be hidden when you return the JSON response.

You can also set it on the fly in a similar manner.

User::$hidden = array('password');