How can you check if a value exists in a particular column using standard methods?

Question

Laravel

Hello. Is it possible to check, as standard, whether a particular value exists in a particular table and database column? Or just counts like this:

$isExists = User::where('email', $request->email)->count()

if (!$isExists) {
   // do something
}

Answer 1

User::where('email', $request->email)->exists()