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Sandro Jhuliano Cagara
Sandro Jhuliano Cagara

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Laravel 9 - New scalar() method

In Laravel 9.8.0, the scalar() method was added that allows you to retrieve the first column of the first row from the query result.

Before:

DB::selectOne("SELECT COUNT(CASE WHEN food = 'burger' THEN 1 END) AS burgers FROM menu_items")->burgers
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Now:

DB::scalar("SELECT COUNT(CASE WHEN food = 'burger' THEN 1 END) FROM menu_items")
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