title: Laravel Eloquent Ignore Casing
body: <p>I am trying to run a query using Eloquent
  the $vars['language'] is in lower case but the language column is not necessarily in lower case. How can i do this search using eloquent but still have the lower case in the query</p>
  
  <pre><code>Item::where('language', $vars['language'])
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>What i want to do is this even though i can't find anywhere how to do this</p>
  
  <pre><code>Item::where('LOWER(language)', $vars['language'])
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>so that they are both in lowercase and then i can get them to match.</p>