我是否需要为数据库中的每个表创建单独的模型

Question

My question is more theoritical, as I am not quite sure if it is a better way to create a model in Laravel for each table on database, if yes, what would be the benefition of it? I am using Laravel 4 Eloquent for the ORM. Thanks

Answer 1

The basic answer is yes, you should have a model for each table.

But the long answer is "it depends". As for what "depends" is, it is something that comes with experience and also your design criteria. There is no 100% right answer that can be used everytime.

As a principle if you plan on accessing data from tables using Eloquent, then you generally need one eloquent model per table, so you can access the table using Eloquent functions.

As a principle you dont need a model if you never use Eloquent to access the data. i.e. perhaps you have a table that you only use the query builder on.