Laravel get row with records above and below it - laravel

Question

I have a Laravel 4.2 project where I get data from a SQL DB and I can display onto the page. I can select the single record just fine, but I want to also show the records around the one selected.
For example, I want to show the 5 records above and below the one selected. Im not sure how to do this in Laravel.
$gradschoolrange = MOGRadschool::where('Title', '=', $gradschool)->get();
In the above example $gradschool might be "Test College", it will return that with a value, but I want to show all the other related records around it with those values too. The results should look something like this:
ABC College
Another College
Blah College
Go To College
Test College
Yet Another College
Yo Yo College
College College
Something College
Eating College

Answer 1

As there's no ordering specified in your initial query, I'm assuming you want 5 next/previous records according to primary key (id? - if not, you would obviously need to change that) in the table?
Given that IDs may not be numerically sequential, we can't simply assume that the previous 5 rows will be the ID of the row with title = $gradschool minus 5, so wondered if this might work:
$initial = MOGRadschool::where('Title', $gradschool)->first(); // get the initial row with the title of $gradschool
$result = MOGRadschool::where('id', '<', $initial->id)->take(5)->orderBy('id', 'DESC') // new query getting the previous 5 rows, by ID
->union(MOGRadschool::where('id', '>', $initial->id)->take(5)) // union a second query getting the next 5 rows by ID
->get() // get the result as a collection
->add($initial) // add the initial row to the collection
->sort(); // sort the collection (by id) so that the initial row is in the middle
So the output is a collection containing the initial row in the middle, with up to 5 records either side. You also have the initial row to highlight the output, if you need that.

Answer 2

If you want it based on the IDs, which is what I understand from your issue, something like this should work:
$selectedGradSchool = MOGRadschool::where('Title', '=', $gradschool)->get()->first();
$aboveSelected = MOGRadschool::where('id', '<=', $selectedGradSchool->id)
->orderBy('id', 'desc')
->take('5')
->get();
$belowSelected = MOGRadschool::where('id', '>' $selectedgradSchool->id)
->take('5')
->get();
//Concatenate both results
$schoolRange = $aboveSelected->concat($belowSelected);
Now the collection should look similar to your desired result.