Is there a example model somewhere?

muppbarn

replied 8 years ago

Another model than User

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tdhsmith

replied 8 years ago

Solution

A lot of the basics are covered in Eloquent: Getting Started: Defining Models, as well as the other Eloquent ORM guides.

I don't know if there are many "complete" examples in the official docs, but models don't need much to be functional.

You are correct, setting $table is sufficient to connect the model to your database table. In fact, you don't even technically need to do that -- by default, Eloquent will just try to lowercase, underscore, and pluralize the class name and use that, which in this case would be correct. ('Post' => 'posts')

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muppbarn

replied 8 years ago

what u are sayin is described in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3PsPHqYRfQ

Laravel as u say, does bind the database table without the variable $table defined. I'm not sure how exactly, but until I encounter another error I'll leave it here.

thanks

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tdhsmith

replied 8 years ago

muppbarn said:

Laravel as u say, does bind the database table without the variable $table defined. I'm not sure how exactly, but until I encounter another error I'll leave it here.

If you're curious about this functionality, you can see the code for it right here in Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model:

public function getTable()
{
    if (isset($this->table)) {
        return $this->table;
    }
    return str_replace('\\', '', Str::snake(Str::plural(class_basename($this))));
}

class_basename is a Laravel global helper, and plural and snake pluralize and snake_case strings, respectively.

This doesn't always work, but it's a pretty good guess for normal table name conventions.

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