title: How to carry out the 'and' operation in laravel 4.1 with multiple parameters
body: <p>I wish to know how to write the following in laravel:</p>
  
  <pre><code>SELECT * FROM items WHERE item_id = $id AND item_category = $cat AND item_price = $price;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>$id, $cat and $price are dynamically passed unto the query.
  Thanks.</p>