Chapter 4. Models & controllers in Laravel 12

Models & Controllers

Create a model or controller

To start, we have to create our Models and controllers. In Laravel 12, Models are PHP files that help us to manage the ORM (Object Relational Mapping), interacting directly with Databases.

Models

Generating a Model is so easy, you just have to execute an php artisan command:

php artisan make:model User

For controllers:

php artisan make:controller UserController

Tip

Is recommended that you follow an specific syntax because many components in Laravel 12 works better based on elements like Models and ORM if you write correctly the syntax. For example, you should write HomeController instead of just Home or ControllerHome

Controller Functions

When you create a controller, it should have some of the next (or all) methods. We are going to see these later.

__invoke()
index()
show()
create()
store()
update()
edit()