Binding not supported in Eloquent 5.1?

I'm new to Laravel and trying to do a string query in Eloquent. I was trying to use DB::statement, but I kept getting errors about placeholders in the query string. It seems I either don't have the syntax right, or bindings are unimplemented or unsupported?

The reason I want to use statement is because I'm doing an INSERT... SELECT, which I haven't been able to find any documentation about in Eloquent.

Here's my code:

$ php artisan tinker
Psy Shell v0.5.2 (PHP 5.6.13-0+deb8u1 — cli) by Justin Hileman
>>> echo \DB::statement('CREATE DATABASE :db', [':db'=>'test']);
Illuminate\Database\QueryException with message 'SQLSTATE[42000]: Syntax error or access violation: 1064 You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near '?' at line 1 (SQL: CREATE DATABASE :db)'
>>> \DB::statement('CREATE DATABASE ?', ['test']);
Illuminate\Database\QueryException with message 'SQLSTATE[42000]: Syntax error or access violation: 1064 You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near '?' at line 1 (SQL: CREATE DATABASE test)'

These are the two syntax forms (? and :string) from PDO. Other methods in DB such as select and insert support this, according to the documentation.

This question on Laracasts is asking about the syntax, but there is no accepted answer.

via Chebli Mohamed