Display created_at from pivot table in Laravel 4 - mysql

Question

I have a three tables - attendees, messages and attendee_message. When a users is sent a standardized message a record is added to the pivot table attendee_message with the id of the attendee, the id of the message and a date/time stamp in the created_at field.
My issue is that both the attendees and messages tables have a field called created_at and when I go to display the date/time the message was sent (the created_at from the attendee_message column) it displays the created_at from the messages table. How do I display the created_at from the attendee_message table instead?
The function that gets the attendees, a scope and the relationship from the model:
public function getatts() {
$atts = Attendee::cmo()->orderBy('created_at');
$atts = $atts->paginate(25);
return $atts;
}
public function scopeCmo($query)
{
return $query->where('block_id', '=', 3);
}
public function messages() {
return $this->belongsToMany('\App\Models\Message','attendee_message','attendee_id','message_id')
->withPivot('id');
}
From my list.blade.php:
#foreach ($att->messages as $message)
<li>'{{$message->subject}}' sent {{$message->created_at}}</li>
#endforeach

Answer 1

To access the row in the pivot table you can use the pivot property. Laravel docs
$message->pivot->created_at
However, by default there are only keys present in the pivot object. So you will need to do
->withPivot('created_at');
on the relationship. In your case it would be ->withPivot('id', 'created_at') if you want to have id in there as well