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', 'pri...

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