Find User in Laravel by Username

Question

So typically if you have access to the id of a user in laravel you can run User::find($id), however say you don\'t have access to the user\'s id and only their username. Is

Answer 1

Yes, even better using the model. just like this

User::where('username','John') -> first();
// or use like 
User::where('username','like','%John%') -> first();
User::where('username','like','%John') -> first();
User::where('username','like','Jo%') -> first();