You should make category its own model, and define a belongsTo/hasMany relation between Article and Category models. Then your line will looks like this:
$articles = Category::find($category)->articles;
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Yes, but I thought there is a dirtier way, a way around that that could just be used for this example of mine. Oh well, thank you for clearing it up for me!
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There is a dirtier way. You actually almost got it. You missed ->get() call to actually fetch the data from table.
$articles = DB::table('articles')->where('category', $category)->get();
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