You don't need to import your database into Laravel, just set the connection details to the database in app/config/database and you can use the DB:: functionality.
Alternatively there is eloquent which is a great ORM that you can use to talk to your database. To use this you need to create models with the necessary table information.
All you need to know can be found in the documentation
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