How to Select Certain Fields in Laravel Eloquent?

Question

How to Do following Query in Laravel Eloquent?

SELECT catID, catName, imgPath FROM categories WHERE catType = \"Root\"

I have tried followi

Answer 1

From laravel version 5.3^ lists() is deprecated and function pluck() is used instead.

pluck() returns a collection and if you need a simple array just prepend ->toArray() to it.