use Eloquent relationships while exporting data to Excel file in Laravel - eloquent

Question

I want to create a summary report of my two tables, one is employees table and the other one is sims table. These tables have one to many relationship. I know that we can export data of a model by using
->fromModel($model)
but is there a way so I can generate the report based on the two tables?

Answer 1

SO, I asked a question and someone who could not answer but cowardly awarded -1. However, I figured it how to do this manually. Posting the code so it may help the future beginners like me.
public function downloadSummary(){
Excel::create('records', function($excel) {
$excel->sheet('Sheet1', function($sheet) {
$employees = Employee::all();
$arr =array();
foreach($employees as $employee) {
foreach($employee->sims as $sim){
$data = array($employee->id, $employee->name, $employee->nic, $employee->address, $employee->title,
$sim->id, $sim->msisdn, $sim->imei, $sim->issued_to);
array_push($arr, $data);
}
}
//set the titles
$sheet->fromArray($arr,null,'A1',false,false)->prependRow(array(
'Employee Id', 'Employee Name', 'Employee NIC', 'Employee Address', 'Employee Title',
'Sim Id', 'Sim MSISDN', 'IMEI', 'Issued To'
)
);
});
})->export('xls');
}