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The Laravel Read Operation

Explore the methods to retrieve data from a database in Laravel. Learn to use Eloquent models and the DB facade for fetching all records, conditional queries, and chaining query methods to handle complex data retrieval scenarios effectively.

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 ...