Laravel DB query builder left join with related counts - mysql

Question

I am new in Laravel and facing an issue with the DB query builder.
I want to fetch all the records from users table and want to count related wishlists in wishlists table. Here is my query.
select `users`.*, count(wishlists.id) as wishlists_count from `users` left join `wishlists` on `users`.`id` = `wishlists`.`uid` where `users`.`status` = 1 group by `wishlists`.`id`
I want to do it with laravel query builder. Here is what I am trying.
$leads = DB::table('users')
->selectRaw('users.*', 'count(wishlists.id) as wishlists_count')
->leftJoin('wishlists', 'users.id', '=', 'wishlists.uid')
->where('users.status',1)
->groupBy('wishlists.id')
->get();
It is showing this error.
Argument 2 passed to Illuminate\Database\Query\Builder::selectRaw()
must be of the type array, string given.
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in Advance.

Answer 1

This should work. From the documentation, the second argument to selectRaw() is an optional array of bindings.
However, you can achieve what you are looking for with a combination of select() and DB::raw()
$leads = DB::table('users')
->select('users.*', DB::raw('count(wishlists.id) as wishlists_count'))
->leftJoin('wishlists', 'users.id', '=', 'wishlists.uid')
->where('users.status',1)
->groupBy('wishlists.uid')
->get();
Edit: The above answer is wrong. I would consider the following alternatives instead.
Either you could achieve it with a Sub-Query with something like the following:
$wishlist = Wishlist::select(DB::raw('count(wishlists.id)'))
->whereColumn('uid', 'users.id')
->getQuery();
$users = User::select('users.*')
->selectSub($wishlist, 'wishlists_count')
->get();
Or with a much easier way (assuming you have a wishlists relationship set up)
Users::withCount('wishlists')->get();
foreach($users as $user) {
echo $user->wishlists_count;
}