Eloquence is a package to extend Laravel 4's base Eloquent models and functionality.
It allows developers to continue using the PSR-0 standard when dealing with database field names in models. This package will be built on in the future to add more features to the great Eloquent library.
Install the package via composer:
composer require kirkbushell/eloquence ~1.0
First, add the eloquence service provider to your config/app.php file:
'KirkBushell\Eloquence\EloquenceServiceProvider',
Now, update your Eloquent alias to instead point to the Eloquence model version:
'Eloquent' => 'KirkBushell\Eloquence\Database\Model',
You should now be good to go with your models.
The default behaviour for Eloquence is to override the default way to access attributes in your models. This is done like so:
public $enforceCamelCase = true;
You can change this if you need certain models to not use this behaviour, simply by setting it to false:
public $enforceCamelCase = false;
It should be noted that Eloquence DOES NOT CHANGE how you write your schema migrations. You should still be using snake_case when setting up your fields and tables in your database schema migrations.