Cast Laravel query results to class

Question

When creating a query using the syntax DB::table(\'foo\'), it creates a generic class (stdClass). Is there any way to cast the resulting rows to a specific class?

Answer 1

Yes. For example:

  $query = DB::table('example_tbl')->where('id', $id)->get();
  $cast = (array)$query;
  var_dump($cast);