Eloquent ORM

Introduction

The Laravel framework has a built-in object-relational mapper (ORM) called Eloquent. The Eloquent ORM makes it easy to interact with the application database using an expressive syntax. When using the Eloquent ORM, each database table has a corresponding Model that interacts with that database table.

Model classes

The make:model artisan command generates a model class and places it in the app\Models directory. Model classes extend the Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model class.

php artisan make:model Post

We can generate a database migration when creating the model using ...