Question

What is Eloquent in Laravel?

Answer 1

Eloquent is the ORM used to interact with the database using Model classes. It gives handy methods on class objects to make a query on the database.

It can directly be used to retrieve data from any table and run any raw query. But in conjunction with Models, we can make use of its various methods and also make use of relationships and attributes defined on the model.

Some examples of using the Eloquent are below:

1. `DB::table(‘users’)->get()`
2. `User::all()`
3. `User::where(‘name’, ‘=’, ‘Eloquent’)->get()`