Laravel Eloquent selectRaw() Query Example

Hello all! In this article, we will talk about laravel selectraw example. you'll learn selectraw query in laravel example. it's simple example of laravel add select raw. I’m going to show you about laravel selectraw field. you will do the following things for laravel eloquent selectraw.

In this example i will give you very simple example of how to use selectRaw in laravel application. you can easily use it with laravel 6, laravel 7, laravel 8, laravel 9, laravel 10 and laravel 11 application.

So, let's see bellow examples that will help you how to use selectRaw() eloquent query in laravel.

Example 1:

SQL Query:

select *, amount + ? as amount_with_bonus 
	from `users`

Laravel Query:

<?php
  
namespace App\Http\Controllers;
  
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use App\User;
  
class UserController extends Controller
{
    /**
     * Display a listing of the resource.
     *
     * @return \Illuminate\Http\Response
     */
    public function index()
    {
        $users = User::select("*")
                        ->selectRaw('amount + ? as amount_with_bonus', [500])
                        ->get();
        dd($users);
    }
}

Output:

Array
(
    [0] => Array
        (
            [id] => 1
            [name] => Prof. Josiane Jast MD
            [email] => savanihd@gmail.com
            [email_verified_at] => 2020-07-01T09:34:13.000000Z
            [created_at] => 2020-07-03T09:34:13.000000Z
            [updated_at] => 2020-07-01T09:34:13.000000Z
            [status] => 1
            [first_name] => 
            [last_name] => 
            [point] => 
            [points] => 0
            [amount] => 1000
            [amount_with_bonus] => 1500
        )
    [1] => Array
        (
            [id] => 2
            [name] => Mr. Donavon Beer
            [email] => yemmerich@example.net
            [email_verified_at] => 2020-07-01T09:34:13.000000Z
            [created_at] => 2020-07-02T09:34:13.000000Z
            [updated_at] => 2020-07-01T09:34:13.000000Z
            [status] => 1
            [first_name] => Hardik
            [last_name] => Savani
            [point] => 
            [points] => 0
            [amount] => 1000
            [amount_with_bonus] => 1500
        )
)

Example 2:

Laravel Query:

<?php
  
namespace App\Http\Controllers;
  
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use App\User;
use DB;
  
class UserController extends Controller
{
    /**
     * Display a listing of the resource.
     *
     * @return \Illuminate\Http\Response
     */
    public function index()
    {
        $users = User::select("*")
                        ->select('*', DB::raw('amount + 500 as amount_with_bonus'))
                        ->get();
  
        dd($users);
    }
}

I hope it can help you...