i am little bit confused that how my query convert in laravel..
select users.username,users.photo, questions.*,
(Select count(*) from answers
where answers.q_id=questions.id) as aAccount from questions
INNER JOIN users ON users.id=questions.user_id
Use Raw query
These expressions will be injected into the query as strings, so be careful not to create any SQL injection points! To create a raw expression, you may use the DB::raw method
DB::table('questions')
->join('users', 'users.id', '=', 'questions.user_id')
->select('users.username','users.photo', 'questions.*',
DB::raw("
( Select count(*) from answers
where answers.q_id=questions.id
)as 'aAccount'")
->get();
I upvoted JYoThl answer as it's exactly how I'd breakdown this query into eloquent, though in instances where a portion of your Eloquent query becomes raw, I personally prefer keeping the entire sql raw. You can still inject variables into it if required.
In my experience, the amount of time spent normalizing a more complex query like this will be used when you go back to the code to re-read it.
Here's how you would pass your sql in it's raw format. I also like to convert the array into a collection, as collections offer a variety of methods. Hope this helps!
$questions = collect(DB::select( DB::raw("
select users.username,users.photo, questions.*,
(Select count(*) from answers where answers.q_id=questions.id) as aAccount
from questions
INNER JOIN users ON users.id=questions.user_id")
));
You would add variables into an array() area if you want to inject a variable. If you wanted to do that you would do something like this:
DB::select( DB::raw("select * from user where user = :user"), array('user' => $user))
