Laravel 4 DB：在框架外运行时，raw（）不可用

Question

I'm using the [illuminate/database component][1] from Laravel 4 through composer - and while it generally works well, the DB facade seems to be broken in this standalone version. This meant I was unable to use static functions such as DB::raw(). It seems like the DB facade is even included in the package, but it doesn't work with ::raw().

I'm trying to do something like this -

...->orderBy(DB::raw('RAND()'))

Answer 1

Capsule::raw() is available, and is linked to the default connection's raw().

Also, what I did is I created a class:

/**
 * @method static raw($value)
 * @method static array select($query, $bindings = [], $useReadPdo = true)
 * ...etc.
 */
class DB extends Manager
{
}

so that

1. You can use DB::raw().
2. IDE code completion works.