Join Table Values in Laravel Eloquent

Question

I have an index() function on a controller that lists all of my users. Currently I can list all users, and values for the users but I can't get information from another table. Here is an an example of an SQL query I am trying to replicate in Eloquent.

SELECT user.id, user.name, user.email, user.title, timezones.name FROM users, timezones WHERE user.timezone=timezones.id

The way in which I currently display the users is:

$users = User::latest()->paginate(5); return view('users.index', compact('users'));

Table structure is as follows

Users Table:

id | name | email | timezone (int)

Timezone Table:

id | name

To output the data this is my index.blade.php file:

@foreach ($users as $user)
<tr>
<td>{{ $user->name }}</td>
<td>{{ $user->email }}</td>
<td>{{ $user->title }}</td>
<td>{{ $user->timezone }}</td>
</tr>
@endforeach

Answer 1

One way to do this would be to join the timezones table instead:

$users = User::select('user.id', 'user.name', 'user.email', 'user.title', 'timezones.name as timezone')
    ->join('timezones', 'user.timezone', 'timezones.id')
    ->latest()
    ->paginate(5);