title: Laravel Eloquent - Get one Row
body: <p>This might be a simple question, but I cannot figure this out. I am trying to get a user by email using:</p>
  
  <pre><code>$user = User::whereEmail($email)-&gt;get();
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>But this is returning an array (of dimension 1) of $users. So If I want to get the name, I have to do <code>$user[0]['first_name']</code>. </p>
  
  <p>I tried using <code>limit(1)</code> or <code>take(1)</code>, or even using <code>-&gt;toArray()</code> but there was no difference.</p>
  
  <p>What am I doing wrong?</p>