Hy all, can anyone help me with converting some data which will be return from model(based on the RAW query) into JSON.

So in my controller i have something like:

public function get_index() {

    $data = Something::getDataFromRawQuery();



    return View::make('....')->with('data', $data);

}

So my question is how to forward JSON data to the view from controller?

Here is the query:

$apps = DB::query('SELECT a.name,

    a.desc,

    a.sig,

    ar.rate

    FROM something a

    INNER JOIN something_else ar

    ON (a.id=ar.something_id)

    ORDER BY ar.rate DESC'

 );



 return $apps;