Laravel - Eloquent

What is Eloquent in Laravel?

Eloquent is the ORM (Object Relational Mapper) in Laravel, it is a way that you can work with a database with simple syntax instead of writing long queries. Tables can be represented as objects, which saves the pain of working with long confusing queries.

Create a model instance Task

php artisan make:model Task

by default Task represents a single item in database table “tasks” To add shortcut for routers, we add:

use App\Task;

in the web.php file, then we can use eloquent shortcuts like

Route::get('/tasks', function () {
    // $tasks = DB::table('tasks')->get(); 
    $tasks = Task::all();
    return view('tasks.index', compact('tasks'));
});

Route::get('/tasks/{task}', function ($id) {
    // $task = DB::table('tasks')->find($id);
    $task = Task::find($id);
    return view('tasks.show', compact('task'));
});

The commented code are the traditional way to retrieve the same information.