Laravel Eloquent - Get one Row

This might be a simple question, but I cannot figure this out. I am trying to get a user by email using:

$user = User::whereEmail($email)->get();

But this is returning an array (of dimension 1) of $users. So If I want to get the name, I have to do $user[0]['first_name'].

I tried using limit(1) or take(1), or even using ->toArray() but there was no difference.

What am I doing wrong?

Simply use this:

$user = User::whereEmail($email)->first();

You can do this too

Before you use this you must declare the DB facade in the controller Simply put this line for that

use Illuminate\Support\Facades\DB;

Now you can get a row using this

$getUserByEmail = DB::table('users')->where('email', $email)->first();

or by this too

$getUserByEmail = DB::select('SELECT * FROM users WHERE email = ?' , ['[email protected]']);

This one returns an array with only one item in it and while the first one returns an object. Keep that in mind.

Hope this helps.

Using Laravel Eloquent you can get one row using first() method,

it returns first row of table if where() condition is not found otherwise it gives the first matched row of given criteria.

Syntax:

Model::where('fieldname',$value)->first();

Example:

$user = User::where('email',$email)->first(); 
//OR
//$user = User::whereEmail($email)->first();

In case you need to find out any specific field, you can use

$user = User::where('email',$email)->first(); 

$user = User::where('username',$username)->first(); 

$user = User::where('id',$id)->first(); 

Try with it

$color = \App\Color::take(1)->first();

laravel 5.8

If you don't even need an entire row, you may extract a single value from a record using the value() method. This method will return the value of the column directly:

$first_name = DB::table('users')->where('email' ,'me@mail,com')->value('first_name');

check docs

Laravel 5.2

$sql = "SELECT * FROM users WHERE email = $email";

$user = collect(\User::select($sql))->first();

or

$user = User::table('users')->where('email', $email)->pluck();