How to alias a table in Laravel Eloquent queries (or using Query Builder)?

To alias a table in a Laravel Eloquent query, you can use the as method on a DB facade. Here is an example:

<?php

$users = DB::table('users as u')
  ->select('u.id', 'u.name')
  ->get();

This will select all id and name columns from the users table, and alias the table as u.

You can also use the DB::raw() method to specify a raw expression in the select clause:

<?php

$users = DB::table('users as u')
  ->select('u.id', 'u.name', DB::raw('COUNT(posts.id) as post_count'))
  ->leftJoin('posts', 'u.id', '=', 'posts.user_id')
  ->groupBy('u.id', 'u.name')
  ->get();

This will select all id and name columns from the users table, and also a post_count column that contains the number of posts written by each user (calculated using a left join and a group by clause).

If you want to use the Query Builder instead of the DB facade, you can use the alias method:

<?php

$users = DB::table('users')
  ->alias('u')
  ->select('u.id', 'u.name')
  ->get();

This will produce the same result as the first example.