The first model

- [Narrator] In Laravel, models are what we use … to talk to the database. … Let's fill our first model and see how easy it is … to swap from using our direct database queries, … like we've been doing up to now, … to using models in Laravel Eloquent. … We'll start with using our php artisan … command line interface, to build the model … for our room's table. … In our terminal, from the code directory … inside of our homestead box, … we will want to run the command … php artisan make colon model dash dash factory Room. … We're not going to deal with factories in this course, … but factories make it easier for you … to build instances of the model … to save to the database when you're seeding, … or when you're writing unit test. … Let's go to our text editor to see … what this model provides for us. … We'll open this up in app room dot php. … This class is extremely simple at this point. … It merely defines that is in the app name space. … It imports a base model class that we can extend, …