Sorting UNION queries with Laravel 4.1

Question

I think there is something changed in the union between Laravel 4 and Laravel 4.1. I have 2 models.

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Answer 1

It should work if you add orderBy methods in the chaining to both of them, like this:

$photos = DB::table('photos')->select('id', 'name', 'created_at')->orderBy('created_at', 'desc');
$videos = DB::table('videos')->select('id', 'name', 'created_at')->orderBy('created_at', 'desc');
$combined = $photos->union($videos);

Right now, as Barmar said, Laravel only knows that the photos query should be ordered, since you do that in your third line, which can be removed if you do it like above.