I am developing apis for andriod in laravel 4.2. Facing a very silly type of problem I have a blog model which connects to its comment by relationship.

THE CODE IS:-

$user = User::find($id); if ($user) { $blog = Blog::find($blog_id); if($blog) { $com = []; $image = $blog->postedBy->image; $blog['image'] = $image; $comments = $blog->comments;

            foreach ($comments as $comment) {
               $name = $comment->commentBy->fname." ".$comment->commentBy->mname." ".$comment->commentBy->lname;
               $image = $comment->commentBy->image;
               $comment = $comment->comment;
               $app = [
                   'name' => $name,
                   'image' => $image,
                   'comment' => $comment,
               ];
               
               array_push($com,$app);
            }
            $blog['comment'] = $com;
            
           
            unset($blog['comments']);
            
            $data [] = $blog;
            
            return Response::json(['result' => 1, 'data' => $data]);
        }
        return Response::json(['result' => 0, 'data' => 'Invalid blog details supplied']);
    }

AND THE RESPONSE IS :- { "result": 1, "data": [ { "id": "1", "title": "First blog title from alwahda college by admin", "description": "Details goes here First blog title from alwahda college updated by admin", "comment_status": "1", "attachment": "4y1S6tNhnwtwKbtJRa5i.doc", "file_name": "test.doc", "created_by": "1", "organization_id": "1", "is_delete": "0", "created_at": "2015-05-20 01:04:21", "updated_at": "2015-05-20 01:50:15", "image": null, "comment": [ { "name": "Dhrubojyoti Das", "image": null, "comment": "Comment from admin goes here" }, { "name": "Ranjeev Banerjee", "image": "MP3E5ZEAI6DTwHgINlWC.jpg", "comment": "Comment from Ranjeev Banerjee" }, { "name": "Ranjeev Pradhan", "image": null, "comment": "This is test comment on 20th may" } ], "posted_by": { "id": "1", "user_code": "ad.01", "fname": "Dhrubojyoti", "mname": "", "lname": "Das", "user_type_id": "0", "session_student_id": "0", "email": "dhrubojyoti_das@yahoo.in", "alt_email": "", "mobile_no": "8296268671", "alt_mobile_no": "", "address": "5/84 Hazra Road Kolkata 56", "city_id": "0", "state_id": "0", "pin_code": "700056", "country_id": "0", "dob": "1990-09-30", "religion": "Hindu", "gender": "Male", "blood_group": "o+", "image": null, "device_type": null, "device_token": null, "version_no": "", "is_delete": "0", "pay_status": null, "package_type": null, "organization_id": "1", "created_by": "0", "created_at": "2015-05-26 16:18:33", "updated_at": "2015-05-26 10:48:33" } } ] }

I dont want the posted_by key to appear in the array...but its's coming since i have called the $blog->postedBy relationship.

How to remove that...