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Database connection in Laravel

Database connection in Laravel

Database connection establishing and getting data from DB

In these notes, you can understand establishing a DB connection and retrieving data from DB.
Last previous notes, we made blog post data by hard coding, now fetching data from MySQL database.
Here I have created a MySQL database and table for blogs.

Now I am going to add MySQL database configuration in Laravel. As we discussed on early notes we should config DB in .ENV file


DB_CONNECTION=mysql
DB_HOST=127.0.0.1
DB_PORT=3306
DB_DATABASE=mylaravel
DB_USERNAME=root
DB_PASSWORD=
After this setup, I need to write a method in my controller to fetch data from DB.

Example 1

Getting data from DB, This is simple getting data from DB. I used use DB; class and I written direct query.


<?php

	namespace App\Http\Controllers;

	use Illuminate\Http\Request;
	use DB;

	class BlogController extends Controller
	{
		/* Below as example of getting data from DB */
		public function blog_db_example($slug)
		{

			$post = DB::table('tbl_blogs')->where('slug',$slug)->first();

			if(!$post)
			{
				abort(404);
			}

			return view('blog_from_db',["blog"=>$post]);
		}
	}

Example 2

Using models, Laravel has Eloquent feature.

You can create a model using PHP artisan commands

php artisan make:model model_name

<?php

	namespace App\Http\Controllers;

	use Illuminate\Http\Request;
	use App\Models\Tbl_blogs;

	class BlogController extends Controller
	{

		 /* Below as example of getting data from Model */
		 public function blog_db_model_example($slug)
		 {
			return view('blog_from_db',[
				"blog" => Tbl_blogs::where('slug',$slug)->firstOrFail()
				]);
		 }
	}
In my view, I simple print the blog_desc


<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8">
    <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge">
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
    <title>Document</title>
</head>
<body>
    <h3>Welcome to Blog posts from laravel</h3>
    <p>{{$blog->blog_desc}}</p>
</body>
</html>
and in web.php


/**
 * Example of bring blog data from db
 */
Route::get('blog_from_db_example/{post}','App\Http\Controllers\BlogController@blog_db_example');

/**
 * Example of bring blog data from db
 */
Route::get('blog_from_model_db_example/{post}','App\Http\Controllers\BlogController@blog_db_model_example');
Result same as we expected

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