Eloquent模型是否与MVC模型相同（在laravel中）？

Question

I saw this post (The difference between an Eloquent Model and a Model?) but it doesn't explicitly answer the question for me.

I may not be using the right terminology here...

I understand Eloquent to be "...an ActiveRecord implementation for working with your database..." as it says in the documentation. But is what is not clear to me is difference between these eloquent models, and models as one refers to them in the MVC sense.

Does it sound logical if I was to say that in a particular laravel application

1. there will be many models, some of which are Eloquent models, and some of which are models in the MVC sense.
2. Eloquent models are quite lean and pure classes, allowing interaction with the database layer.
3. MVC models, by comparison may contain all sorts of business rules & logic
4. Both types are easily created by php artisan make:model although with an Eloquent model one might want to create the migration at the same time.
5. All models are stored in the same place, unless otherwise organised. It's not as if there is some externally visible location or naming convention to indicate that this is an Eloquent Model, or a MVC model.

...is that about right?

Answer 1

1. There are only models. Some of them have extended functionality by using the Object-relational mapping methodology - Eloquent ( one of many ).You can read more about ORM here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object-relational_mapping

1. They are everything but not lean and pure. They are far blown and use a lot of unnecessary data to create relations between database object in the form of easy to read / use syntax. Example firstModel->secondModel->thirdModel->somethingSilly();

2. MVC Models can contain everything as Controller but they answer to convention so you should probably read more extensively about MVC and the logic behind it.

3. Pretty much that's the purpose of Artisan. To make everything more simple and easy to use.

4. Yep.

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