Laravel Eloquent ORM Tutorial for Beginners

Learn Laravel Eloquent ORM from scratch — create models, query the database, and define relationships like hasMany and belongsTo.

Eloquent is Laravel's built in ORM (Object Relational Mapper). It lets you interact with your database using expressive PHP code instead of writing raw SQL queries. This tutorial covers everything a beginner needs to start querying and managing data with Eloquent. What is an ORM? An ORM maps your database tables to PHP classes. Each table gets a corresponding "Model," and each row in that table becomes an instance of that model. Instead of writing: SELECT FROM products WHERE price > 100; You write: Product::where('price', '>', 100) >get(); Creating a Model php artisan make:model Product You can generate the model and its migration together: php artisan make:model Product m This creates app/Models/Product.php . A Basic Eloquent Model namespace App\Models; use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model; class Product extends Model { protected $fillable = ['name', 'description', 'price'...

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