Order By before Group By using Eloquent (Laravel)

Question

I have a \"messages\" table with the following columns

CREATE TABLE `messages` (
  `id` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
  `fromId` int(11) NOT NULL,
  `toId         


        

Answer 1

This work for me: (you can remove the order by createdAt in case createAt increase along with id)

DB::select(DB::raw('select * from (select * from messages group by fromId desc) m order by m.createdAt'));