title: Do I need to clean user input for DB::query calls in laravel?
body: <p>Reading the Laravel <a href="http://laravel.com/docs/queries" rel="nofollow">documentation</a> I see that:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Note: The Laravel query builder uses PDO parameter binding throughout to protect your application against SQL injection attacks. There is no need to clean strings being passed as bindings.
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Does that still apply if I only craft queries in the following manner?</p>
  
  <pre><code>DB::query("SELECT * from table WHERE id like " . $id);
  </code></pre>