Get Specific Columns Using “With()” Function in Laravel Eloquent

Question

I have two tables, User and Post. One User can have many posts and one post belongs to only one user

Answer 1

Well I found the solution. It can be done one by passing a closure function in with() as second index of array like

    Post::with(array('user'=>function($query){
        $query->select('id','username');
    }))->get();

It will only select id and username from other table. I hope this will help others.

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Remember that the primary key (id in this case) needs to be the first param in the $query->select() to actually retrieve the necessary results.*