Eloquent ORM: Working with Data as Objects

Eloquent lets you treat database rows as PHP objects.

Create a model

php artisan make:model Post

Insert data

Post::create([
  'title' => 'My First Post',
  'body' => 'Hello Laravel!'
]);

Fetch data

$posts = Post::all();
$post = Post::find(1);

Update and delete

$post->title = 'Updated';
$post->save();

Post::destroy(1);

How Eloquent works

flowchart LR
  A[Controller] --> B[Eloquent Model]
  B --> C[(Database)]
  C --> B

In the next tutorial, we will map URLs to logic using routes and controllers.