Laravel Eloquent - Get one Row

Question

This might be a simple question, but I cannot figure this out. I am trying to get a user by email using:

$user = User::whereEmail($email)->get(); 

But this is returning an array (of dimension 1) of $users. So If I want to get the name, I have to do $user[0]['first_name'].

I tried using limit(1) or take(1), or even using ->toArray() but there was no difference.

What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

Simply use this:

$user = User::whereEmail($email)->first();