Join along with sum and order by in Eloquent

Question

I'm trying to perform the following SQL query using Eloquent:

select s.username, s.link, s.followers, sum(h.count)
from users s, views h where h.username = s.username order by h.timestamp

I'm aware of the join() , sum() and select() methods, however, how can I perform the sum() and select() together?

Answer 1

To use a SUM() you will have to use DB::raw . Here is an example that should make your query work:

DB::table('users as s')
 ->select(DB::raw('s.username, s.link, s.followers, sum(h.count)'))
 ->join('views as h', 'h.username', '=', 's.username')
 ->orderBy('h.timestamp')
 ->get();