Eloquent: Nested query to revert order in limited result - mysql

Question

The following function (in my User Model) gives me the correct result for my chat system. Almost... I need to revert the order of the results.
public function getChatConv($cp, $page=1){
$limit = $page * 20;
$user = Authek::curUser();
$res = Chatmessage::where('receipient',$cp)->where('sender',$user->id)
->orWhere('receipient',$user->id)->where('sender',$cp)
->orderBy('created_at','desc')->take($limit)->get();
return $res;
}
It returns an object and I need an object as result. I tried already to convert the result to an array, revert the order and then convert the array back to object. This didn't work.
What I need is a nested query like the following raw SQL query:
SELECT *
FROM (
SELECT *
FROM chatmessages
WHERE (
receipient = '422'
AND sender = '22'
)
OR (
receipient = '22'
AND sender = '422'
)
ORDER BY created_at DESC
LIMIT 0 , 20
)faketable
ORDER BY created_at ASC
There are a few articles with nested queries, but I don't find a similar case and it would be good if someone could do this in Eloquent without the use of Raw queries... It must be possible.

Answer 1

Try this..
use take() and skip(),offset()
get 4 items from offset 3/4th:
Chatmessage::take(4)->offset(3)->get();
Or this (get 10 items from 8rd row):
Chatmessage::take(10)->skip(2)->get();
public function getChatConv($cp, $page=1){
$limit = $page * 20;
$user = Authek::curUser();
$res = Chatmessage::where('receipient',$cp)->where('sender',$user->id)
->orWhere('receipient',$user->id)->where('sender',$cp)
->orderBy('created_at','desc')->take(3)->skip(2)->get();
return $res;
}