In this chapter, the Eloquent ORM was demonstrated in detail. Eloquent is an object-oriented wrapper to what actually happens between the database and the code. Since the Fluent query builder is easily accessible, it is important to be familiar with how the queries are written. This will help in debugging and also cover complex cases where Eloquent is not adequate. In this chapter, most of the concepts of Eloquent have been discussed. However, there are many more methods available, so further reading is encouraged.

In the next chapter, among other topics, you will learn how to scale the database to perform better on a larger scale.