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:

select gr         


        

Answer 1

On laravel 5.6 it has a very simple solution:

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

It will return groupName as a string.