Models

Blocks uses Eloquent ORM from laravel to make modeling of data very easy.

A simple Model

So let’s create a very simple User Model. Create a file User.php and enter in the following code, then save it to app/Models directory.

Note

Is a good coding convention start all classes with an upper case. Therefore About.php

Note

We are assuming you have a user table in your database

    <?php
    namespace Models;

    use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model as Eloquent;

    class User extends Eloquent {

            protected $table = 'user';

    }

See also

All Models must extend the IlluminateDatabaseEloquentModel class and should be namespaced Models

Read Eloquent Docs

Migrations

In software engineering, schema migration (also database migration, database change management) refers to the management of incremental, reversible changes and version control to relational database schemas. A schema migration is performed on a database whenever it is necessary to update or revert that database’s schema to some newer or older version. Migrations are performed programmatically by using a schema migration tool. Source: Wikipedia.

Blocks can make Database migrations only with it’s command-line tool (CLI) Blocks-cli.

Resources

Please read these resources to be able to use migrations and models

• Eloquent ORM
• Schema Building
• Writing Migrations