<?php
namespace App\Http\Controllers\your_controller_path;
use DB;// important
//then in
class your_controller extends Controller{
public function index(Request $request ){
$pdo = DB::connection()->getPdo();
$query=$pdo->prepare("SHOW TABLES");
$query->execute();//$query->execute(array($bindings ));
while($row=$query->fetch(\PDO::FETCH_BOTH)) {
//Use \PDO::FETCH_ASSOC, \PDO::FETCH_OBJ
//echo $row->yourcolumnname;//its an object when \PDO::FETCH_OBJ
echo $row[0]; //Indexed Array
}
}