Eloquent

Definitions

1. Laravel's ActiveRecord-style ORM that maps database tables to PHP model classes, providing an expressive syntax for queries, relationships, and mutations.

   In plain English: Laravel's built-in tool for working with databases in PHP — each database table becomes a class, and you interact with data using simple method calls.

   Example: "With Eloquent, fetching a user's posts is just $user->posts — it lazy-loads the relationship automatically."

Related Terms

• Active Record
• Artisan
• Autoload
• Blade
• Composer
• Ecto
• Entity Framework
• HHVM
• PSR
• XHP
• Join Table
• Null Coalescing
• Output Buffering