#11 Interacting with database With Tinker Laravel 5 6

What is php artisan Tinker?

Laravel artisan’s tinker is a repl (read-eval-print loop) used to interact with your application and the database . A repl (read-eval-print-loop) is an interactive language shell. It takes/reads in a single user input, evaluates it, and returns the result to the user.Examples shown below.

COMMANDS for Terminal

cd projectname
# Start laravel
php artisan serve

# Create controller.
php artisan make:controller ControllerName --resource

# Create Model.
php artisan make:model modelname  # model name needs to be singulat e.g. Post

# List all the routes.
php artisan route:list