How to fetch record from table based on post ip address in laravel using eloquent ORM

Question

I am want to fetch record based on user post ip address. I am using eloquent ORM. in such case which format ip address should be stored in database.

$ip = '192.255.365.25';
$employee = Employee::find($ip);

not able to fetch full record for respective rows

Answer 1

find() used to retrieve a model by its primary key, you can use first() as below

$ip = '192.255.365.25';
$employee = Employee::where('ip', $ip)->first();

for more see documentation