Everything you need to know will be here :)

https://laracasts.com/series/laravel-5-fundamentals

kindly take a look at this one http://laravel.com/docs/5.0/queries#selects and http://laravel.com/docs/5.0/eloquent#basic-usage

$accounts = DB::table('users')->where('username', $username)->get();

please take note that whatever you do on query builder, you can do on Eloquent.

beanmoss said:

kindly take a look at this one http://laravel.com/docs/5.0/queries#selects and http://laravel.com/docs/5.0/eloquent#basic-usage

$accounts = DB::table('users')->where('username', $username)->get();

please take note that whatever you do on query builder, you can do on Eloquent.

I've seen similar ones to that, and to display it am I able to after that query do return $accounts and use {{ $accounts }} in my view?

you can use this on your route or Controller to pass data to your views:

return view('accounts.index', ['accounts' => $accounts]);

http://laravel.com/docs/5.0/views

beanmoss said:

you can use this on your route or Controller to pass data to your views:

return view('accounts.index', ['accounts' => $accounts]);

http://laravel.com/docs/5.0/views

I use

return view('accounts.index', compact('accounts'));

Download the code from this post and look it over. ====
http://laravel.io/forum/05-02-2015-laravel-5-fundamental-source-code

@Exhibitioner, you can do that too.

jimgwhit said:

Download the code from this post and look it over. ====
http://laravel.io/forum/05-02-2015-laravel-5-fundamental-source-code

Does that source make use of MySQL queries so that I am able to compare the Laravel methods and find out how they work?

I believe so, but if you query things exactly the way the Laravel 5 docs show, these will be correct for mysql. Look at eloquent and the query builder section of the docs and practice some simple queries at first.