Laravel Eloquent - Select MAX with other columns
I think you should rewrite it like this:
DB::table('users') ->select(['users.id', 'users.username', DB::raw('MAX(ur.rank) AS rank')]) ->leftJoin('users_ranks AS ur', 'ur.uid', '=', 'users.id') ->where('users.id', '=', 7) ->groupBy('users.id') ->first();No sense to use User:: if you use table names later and want to fetch not all of the fields ( 'users.id', 'users.username' ).