use IFNULL in laravel

Question

I have a query in laravel which is working fine.

$subjects = $app->db->table('subjects')->LeftJoin('downloads', 'subjects.subjectID', '=', 'downloads.subject_id')
        ->where('universityID', $currentUser->universityID)->where('semesterID', $currentUser->semesterID)->where('courseID', $currentUser->courseID)
        ->select('subjects.subjectID', 'subjects.subjectName', 'subjects.price',  'downloads.is_download' )
        ->orderBy('subjectID')
        ->get();

There is only one issue that is_download comes null when there is no relative entry in table. After some research I found that there is a function IFNULL by using which I can change is_download null to 0. So here is my query which is not working. Blank screen is showing.

$subjects = $app->db->table('subjects')->LeftJoin('downloads', 'subjects.subjectID', '=', 'downloads.subject_id')
        ->where('universityID', $currentUser->universityID)->where('semesterID', $currentUser->semesterID)->where('courseID', $currentUser->courseID)
        ->select('subjects.subjectID', 'subjects.subjectName', 'subjects.price',  IFNULL( `downloads`.`is_download` , 0 ) )
        ->orderBy('subjectID')
        ->get();

I am able to write this query in my phpmyadmin but not know how to write in laravel

This is the api, So whole code looks like

use Illuminate\Database\Query\Expression as raw;
use project\Models\Subject;
use project\Models\Semester;
use project\Models\StudentRegistration;

$app->get('/api/getSubject/:studentID', function($studentID) use ($app) {
error_reporting(E_ALL);
    $currentUser = StudentRegistration::where('studentID', $studentID)->first();

$subjects = $app->db->table('subjects')->LeftJoin('downloads', 'subjects.subjectID', '=', 'downloads.subject_id')
        ->where('universityID', $currentUser->universityID)->where('semesterID', $currentUser->semesterID)->where('courseID', $currentUser->courseID)
        ->select('subjects.subjectID', 'subjects.subjectName', 'subjects.price',  IFNULL( `downloads`.`is_download` , 0 ) )
        ->orderBy('subjectID')
        ->get();
print_r($subjects);
    return $app->response->write(json_encode([
                'error' => 0,
                'subjects' => $subjects
    ]));
});

Answer 1

You just need to use like this way,

DB::raw('IFNULL( downloads.is_download, 0) as is_download')