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so basically just what the title says, I'm doing code in Laravel that inserts to a table in the database, but i am getting a 500 error.

    public function insert_prospect_to_database(){
        DB::insert('insert into recruiters (name) values (?)', array('james'));
    }

I can't figure out if the query is wrong or not, and the docs haven't much been of a help as well, thanks in advanced!