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Get model column value in Laravel and new whereKey method in Laravel 5.4

January 22, 2017 by Marcin Nabiałek / 4 Comments

In some cases we want to get Eloquent model single column value based on other column value. Let’s assume we have user id and we want to get his e-mail only. We can obviously do:

$user = User::find($id);
$email = $user->email;

1 2	$user = User::find($id); $email = $user->email;

or even shorter:

$email = User::find($id)->email;

1	$email = User::find($id)->email;

but there is one big problem with this – what if user doesn’t exist? Obviously … [Read more…]