PHP

select sum in laravel

Sometime for such queries you need to disable the strict check
 So inside config/database.php and inside mysql, 
 Set 'strict' => false,

->select('user_id', DB::raw('SUM(points) as total_points'))

select sum laravel

    MyModel::where('user_id', $_some_id)->sum('amount')

laravel select where with total sum query to get all data with sum

$query =  SalesPayment::select('*', DB::raw('SUM(amount) AS total_sale_amount')->with ....