Laravel is a framework for backend development for websites. It is written in PHP programming language. We use PHP to write website backend code in Laravel framework. A list of operators on Eloquent’s where() method When you use Eloquent’s where() method, by default it will use the = operator (i.e. ->where('fieldname','value') will generate ... WHERE fieldname = 'value'.... However you are not limited to just =. You can do something like this: $posts = Post::where("id","!=",123)->get() Any of the following may be used as the second parameter (and use the third param for the value) =, <, >, <=, >=, <>, !