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

In Laravel 4 you can hide certain fields from being returned by adding the following in your model.

protected $hidden = array('password','secret_field');

http://laravel.com/docs/eloquent#converting-to-arrays-or-json