Chapter 4. Eloquent ORM
In the previous chapter, we touched on Eloquent, the object-relational mapper (ORM) that ships with Laravel. Eloquent acts as the model layer (the M in MVC) in our applications. As it is such a big part of most applications built in Laravel, we are going to take a look at Eloquent in more detail.
In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:
- Reading and writing data to our database
- Relationships between models
- Query scopes
- Model events and observers
- Collections
Eloquent conventions
Eloquent has some conventions, which, if followed, will make your life easier. This approach is known as convention over configuration, which means, if you follow these conventions, you will have to do very little configuration for things to "just ...
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