php - Merge and Sort two Eloquent Collections?

Question

I've two Collections and I want merge it to one variable (of course, with ordering by one collumn - created_at). How Can I do that?

My Controllers looks that:

$replies = Ticket::with('replies', 'replies.user')->find($id);
$logs = DB::table('logs_ticket')
        ->join('users', 'users.id', '=', 'mod_id')
        ->where('ticket_id', '=', $id)
        ->select('users.username', 'logs_ticket.created_at', 'action')
        ->get();

My Output looks for example:

Replies:

ID | ticket_id | username | message | created_at
1  | 1         | somebody | asdfghj | 2014-04-12 12:12:12
2  | 1         | somebody | qwertyi | 2014-04-14 12:11:10

Logs:

ID | ticket_id | username | action | created_at
1  | 1         | somebody | close  | 2014-04-13 12:12:14
2  | 1         | somebody |  open  | 2014-04-14 14:15:10

And I want something like this:

ticket_id | table | username | message | created_at
1         |replies| somebody | asdfghj | 2014-04-12 12:12:12
1         | logs  | somebody |  close  | 2014-04-13 12:12:14
1         | logs  | somebody |  open   | 2014-04-14 11:15:10
1         |replies| somebody | qwertyi | 2014-04-14 12:11:10

EDIT:

My Ticket Model looks that:

<?php

class Ticket extends Eloquent {

    protected $table = 'tickets';

    public function replies() {
        return $this->hasMany('TicketReply')->orderBy('ticketreplies.created_at', 'desc');
    }

    public function user()
    {
        return $this->belongsTo('User');
    }
}
?>

Answer 1

A little workaround for your problem.

$posts = collect(Post::onlyTrashed()->get());
$comments = collect(Comment::onlyTrashed()->get());

$trash = $posts->merge($comments)->sortByDesc('deleted_at');

This way you can just merge them, even when there are duplicate ID's.