Laravel: getting a a single value from a MySQL query

Question

I\'m trying get a single value from MySQL database using laravel but the problem I\'m getting an array . this is my query result in MySQL command line:

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Answer 1

Edit:

Sorry i forgot about pluck() as many have commented : Easiest way is :

return DB::table('users')->where('username', $username)->pluck('groupName');

Which will directly return the only the first result for the requested row as a string.

Using the fluent query builder you will obtain an array anyway. I mean The Query Builder has no idea how many rows will come back from that query. Here is what you can do to do it a bit cleaner

$result = DB::table('users')->select('groupName')->where('username', $username)->first();

The first() tells the queryBuilder to return only one row so no array, so you can do :

return $result->groupName;

Hope it helps