Laravel 5.2 - pluck() method returns array

Question

I\'m trying to upgrade my project L5.1 -> L5.2. In upgrade guide there\'s one thing which isn\'t clear for me:

The lists method on the Co

Answer 1

In the original example, why not use the select() method in your database query?

$name = DB::table('users')->where('name', 'John')->select("id");

This will be faster than using a PHP framework, for it'll utilize the SQL query to do the row selection for you. For ordinary collections, I don't believe this applies, but since you're using a database...

Larvel 5.3: Specifying a Select Clause