The Laravel Read Operation

Learn multiple ways to read data from the database in Laravel

Introduction

Reading data from the database is important and the most commonly used operation of any application. Laravel provides a variety of ways to fetch records from the database.

The two main ways to fetch records from the database are the following:

  • Using Eloquent

  • Using DB facade

Using models to fetch records

Models with e­loquence are defined within the App namespace­. These models respond to tables in our database. The ...

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