You can do this too
Before you use this you must declare the DB facade in the controller Simply put this line for that
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\DB;
Now you can get a row using this
$getUserByEmail = DB::table('users')->where('email', $email)->first();
or by this too
$getUserByEmail = DB::select('SELECT * FROM users WHERE email = ?' , ['[email protected]']);
This one returns an array with only one item in it and while the first one returns an object. Keep that in mind.
Hope this helps.