As a developer you must face some situation where you have to need the sql executed. In Laravel you can see your sql query generated each step. Below is a simple code snippet to output the sql query generated by Laravel query generator. Also you have the parameters there used in Laravel query.
DB::enableQueryLog();
$total = DB::table('user')
->where('group_id', '=', 1)
->where('status', '=', 1)
->count();
$queries = DB::getQueryLog();
$last_query = end($queries);
echo "<pre>"; print_r($last_query); echo "</pre>";
DB::enableQueryLog();
$total = DB::table('user')
->where('group_id', '=', 1)
->where('status', '=', 1)
->count();
$queries = DB::getQueryLog();
$last_query = end($queries);
echo "<pre>"; print_r($last_query); echo "</pre>";
Output following:
Array ( [query] => select count(*) as aggregate from `user` where `group_id` = ? and `status` = ? [bindings] => Array ( [0] => 64 [1] => 1 ) [time] => 0 )