title: Empty where clause in Laravel 5.1 preferring eloquent method
body: <p>i am looking to produce the following query in laravel 5.1 with eloquent method.</p>
  
  <p>The mysql query is a follows</p>
  
  <pre><code>SELECT * FROM orders WHERE 1 = 1 ORDER BY o_date DESC LIMIT 25
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>No matter what i cant get the </p>
  
  <pre><code>WHERE 1 = 1
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>part working.</p>
  
  <p>am new to laravel and pretty sure this is easy. but can't figure it out.</p>
  
  <p>I have tried the following variations</p>
  
  <pre><code>$orders = orders::where('1', 1)-&gt;orderBy('o_date', 'desc')-&gt;take(25)-&gt;get();
  $orders = orders::where(1)-&gt;orderBy('o_date', 'desc')-&gt;take(25)-&gt;get();
  $orders = orders::where('1', '=', '1')-&gt;orderBy('o_date', 'desc')-&gt;take(25)-&gt;get();
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>but its not working. the query results is as shown below</p>
  
  <pre><code>&gt; select count(*) as aggregate from `orders`
  </code></pre>