How to Select Certain Fields in Laravel Eloquent?

Question

How to Do following Query in Laravel Eloquent?

SELECT catID, catName, imgPath FROM categories WHERE catType = \"Root\"

I have tried followi

Answer 1

lists() turns the resulting collection into an array with key value. You can only have two database columns in there. Otherwise you have to use select() but then you will get a collection of models not just an array.

$categories = CategoryModel::select('catID', 'catName', 'imgPath')
                           ->where('catType', '=', 'Root')
                           ->get();