Get the Query Executed in Laravel 3/4

Laravel 4+

Note for Laravel 5 users: You'll need to call DB::enableQueryLog() before executing the query. Either just above the line that runs the query or inside a middleware.

In Laravel 4 and later, you have to call DB::getQueryLog() to get all ran queries.

$queries = DB::getQueryLog();
$last_query = end($queries);

Or you can download a profiler package. I'd recommend barryvdh/laravel-debugbar, which is pretty neat. You can read for instructions on how to install in their repository.

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Laravel 3

In Laravel 3, you can get the last executed query from an Eloquent model calling the static method last_query on the DB class.

DB::last_query();

This, however, requires that you enable the profiler option in application/config/database.php. Alternatively you could, as @dualed mentioned, enable the profiler option, in application/config/application.php or call DB::profile() to get all queries ran in the current request and their execution time.

You can enable the "Profiler" in Laravel 3 by setting

'profiler' => true,

In your application/config/application.php and application/config/database.php

This enables a bar at the bottom of each page. One of its features is listing the executed queries and how long each one took.