Passing data from controller to view in Laravel

Question

I am new to laravel and I have been trying to store all records of table \'student\' to a variable and then pass that variable to a view so that I can display them.

Answer 1

public function showstudents() {
     $students = DB::table('student')->get();
     return (View::make("user/regprofile", compact('student')));
}