Added 'chunk' method.

Added 'chunk' method to query builder and Eloquent for doing work on
large result sets.

src/Illuminate/Database/Eloquent/Builder.php

@@ -136,6 +136,30 @@ public function pluck($column)
		if ($result) return $result->{$column};
	}

	/**
	 * Chunk the results of the query.
	 *
	 * @param  int  $count
	 * @param  callable  $callback
	 * @return void
	 */
	public function chunk($count, $callback)
	{
		$results = $this->forPage($page = 1, $count)->get();

		while (count($results) > 0)
		{
			// On each chunk result set, we will pass them to the callback and then let the
			// developer take care of everything within the callback, which allows us to
			// keep the memory low for spinning through large result sets for working.
			call_user_func($callback, $results);

			$page++;

			$results = $this->forPage($page, $count)->get();
		}
	}

	/**
	 * Get an array with the values of a given column.
	 *

src/Illuminate/Database/Query/Builder.php

@@ -1074,6 +1074,30 @@ protected function getCacheCallback($columns)
		return function() use ($me, $columns) { return $me->getFresh($columns); };
	}

	/**
	 * Chunk the results of the query.
	 *
	 * @param  int  $count
	 * @param  callable  $callback
	 * @return void
	 */
	public function chunk($count, $callback)
	{
		$results = $this->forPage($page = 1, $count)->get();

		while (count($results) > 0)
		{
			// On each chunk result set, we will pass them to the callback and then let the
			// developer take care of everything within the callback, which allows us to
			// keep the memory low for spinning through large result sets for working.
			call_user_func($callback, $results);

			$page++;

			$results = $this->forPage($page, $count)->get();
		}
	}

	/**
	 * Get an array with the values of a given column.
	 *

src/Illuminate/Foundation/changes.json

@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@
		{"message": "Allow connection to be configurable when using Redis based sessions.", "backport": null},
		{"message": "Allow passing DateTime objects to Queue::later.", "backport": null},
		{"message": "Added Queue::bulk method for pushing several jobs out at once.", "backport": null},
		{"message": "Added 'dates' property to Eloquent model for convenient setting of date columns.", "backport": null}
		{"message": "Added 'dates' property to Eloquent model for convenient setting of date columns.", "backport": null},
		{"message": "Added 'chunk' method to query builder and Eloquent for doing work on large result sets.", "backport": null}
	]
}