Laravel Eloquent
Introduction
The Eloquent is an ORM (Object Relational Model) included with the Laravel. It implements the active record pattern and is used to interact with relational databases.
Remarks
Table naming
The convention is to use pluralised “snake_case” for table names and singular “StudlyCase” for model names. For example:
- A
catstable would have aCatmodel - A
jungle_catstable would have aJungleCatmodel - A
userstable would have aUsermodel - A
peopletable would have aPersonmodel
Eloquent will automatically try to bind your model with a table that has the plural of the name of the model, as stated above.
You can, however, specify a table name to override the default convention.
class User extends Model
{
protected $table = 'customers';
}
