Using Eloquent to retrieve data shows different array - sql

Question

Well I am very very new to Laravel. So I am learning the basics from Laracast actually. I have a table called songs , a model Song.php as below:
<?php namespace App;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model as Eloquent;
class Song extends Eloquent{
}
And a Controller SongsController.php :
use App\Song;
use DB;
class SongsController extends Controller
{
function index() {
$songs = Song::get();
$songs2 = DB::table('songs')->get();dd($songs2);
//$mysong2 = Song::whereSlug('as-long-as-you-love-me')->first();
}
}
So I expect $songs and $songs2 are same and produce same result. but dd($songs) produce result something like below:
Collection {#146 ▼
#items: array:1 [▼
0 => Song {#147 ▼
#connection: null
#table: null
#primaryKey: "id"
#perPage: 15
+incrementing: true
+timestamps: true
#attributes: array:6 [▼
"id" => "1"
"title" => "As Long as you Love me"
"slug" => "as-long-as-you-love-me"
"lyrics" => null
"created_at" => "2015-06-21 00:00:00"
"updated_at" => "2015-06-21 00:00:00"
]
#original: array:6 [▶]
#relations: []
#hidden: []
#visible: []
#appends: []
#fillable: []
#guarded: array:1 [▶]
#dates: []
#dateFormat: null
#casts: []
#touches: []
#observables: []
#with: []
#morphClass: null
+exists: true
}
]
}
and $songs2 produces ( which I think the actual,but not sure):
array:1 [▼
0 => {#145 ▼
+"id": "1"
+"title": "As Long as you Love me"
+"slug": "as-long-as-you-love-me"
+"lyrics": null
+"created_at": "2015-06-21 00:00:00"
+"updated_at": "2015-06-21 00:00:00"
}
]
So I want to know which one should I use ? And is there any mistake I am doing ?

Answer 1

there is no mistake.
for $songs you are using eloquent with function get(), which will always return an object of type
Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Collection
but for $songs2 you are using query builder with function get(), which will always return an array of
stdClass objects.
thats why you see different results.
both are correct and you can use both, but if you have created a model for your song, then use eloquent instead of query builder.