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.
// BeforeDB::selectOne("SELECT COUNT(CASE WHEN food = 'burger' THEN 1 END) AS burgers FROM menu_items;")->burgers// NowDB::scalar("SELECT COUNT(CASE WHEN food = 'burger' THEN 1 END) FROM menu_items;")Tip given by @justsanjit
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