Eloquent Beyond The Basics Table of Contents

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• The Laravel Query Builder
  • How does it work?
    • Bindings
  • Raw queries
  • Subqueries
    • Aggregates
• Eloquent
  • What's an ORM?
  • What's the relationship between Eloquent and the query builder?
    • Where is the where?
    • Magic methods
    • Back to the model
    • The Eloquent Query Builder
  • Why choose Eloquent over the query builder
    • Differences
    • Benefits of Eloquent
    • Drawbacks of Eloquent
• Working with Pivot Tables
  • Basic Usage
  • Adding timestamps
    • Ordering by a pivot table
  • Adding more fields to the pivot table
  • Pivot table models
• Scopes
  • Local scopes
    • How to define a local scopes
    • Combining local scopes
  • Or where scope
  • Global scopes
    • Disable Global Scopes
    • Soft Deletes: Laravel's use of global scopes
• Aggregates
  • Basic use
  • Aggregates and Eloquent relations
    • Other aggregate functions
  • Aggregates using group by and raw queries
• Joins
  • Inner Join
  • Left And Right Joins
  • Cross joins
  • Filtering with joins
  • Should you use joins with Eloquent?