How to use SQL raw query in Laravel - laravel-5

Question

SQL table:
SELECT id,
account_name,
parent_id
FROM
(SELECT id,
account_name,
parent_id,
CASE
WHEN id = 1 THEN #idlist := CONCAT(id)
WHEN FIND_IN_SET(parent_id, #idlist) THEN #idlist := CONCAT(#idlist, ',', id)
END AS checkId
FROM chart_of_account
ORDER BY id ASC) AS T
WHERE checkId IS NOT NULL
When I run this query in MySQL it works fine and the result is fetched perfectly, but when I run it in Laravel like this:
$accountId = DB::select('SELECT id,account_name,parent_id FROM
(SELECT id,account_name,parent_id,
CASE WHEN id = '.$account_id.' THEN #idlist := CONCAT(id)
WHEN FIND_IN_SET(parent_id,#idlist) THEN #idlist := CONCAT(#idlist,', ',id)
END as checkId
FROM chart_of_account
ORDER BY id ASC) as T
WHERE checkId IS NOT NULL');
it gives an error.
Argument 1 passed to Illuminate\\Database\\Connection::prepareBindings() must be of the type array, string given,

Answer 1

Try this:
$query = 'YOUR_QUERY_THE_BIG_ONE:)';
$result = DB::select($query,[]);
dd($result);
Optionally, you can use ? sign in your query wherever you are using user inputs to prevent mySQL injection issue and then provide their value in second parameter array of select function. One example would be:
$inputUserEmail = $request->input('email');
$query = 'SELECT * FROM users WHERE email=?';
$result = DB::select($query,[$inputUserEmail]);
dd($result);
I hope it gives you an idea