How to get distinct values for non-key column fields in Laravel?

In Eloquent you can also query like this:

$users = User::select('name')->distinct()->get();

in eloquent you can use this

$users = User::select('name')->groupBy('name')->get()->toArray() ;

groupBy is actually fetching the distinct values, in fact the groupBy will categorize the same values, so that we can use aggregate functions on them. but in this scenario we have no aggregate functions, we are just selecting the value which will cause the result to have distinct values

You should use groupby. In Query Builder you can do it this way:

$users = DB::table('users')
            ->select('id','name', 'email')
            ->groupBy('name')
            ->get();