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

Using query builder, get the single column value such as groupName

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

For Laravel 5.1

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

Or, Using user model, get the single column value

 $groupName = User::where('username', $username)->pluck('groupName');

Or, get the first row and then split for getting single column value

 $data = User::where('username', $username)->first();
 if($data)
   $groupName=$data->groupName;