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'And what you can also do is you can choose a prefix for your tables when you create them.', 'start': 529.637, 'duration': 3.946}, {'end': 536.326, 'text': 'So we could do something like code course underscore.', 'start': 533.643, 'duration': 2.683}, {'end': 540.231, 'text': "But I'm not going to be doing that, so I want to just leave that blank like so.", 'start': 536.927, 'duration': 3.304}, {'end': 546.88, 'text': 'So now what we want to do is we want to say capsule boot eloquent, like so.', 'start': 541.553, 'duration': 5.327}], 'summary': 'Setting character encoding to utf-8 and collation to utf-8 unicode ci.', 'duration': 29.73, 'max_score': 517.15, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/pQG_jgttwps/pics/pQG_jgttwps517150.jpg'}], 'start': 124.964, 'title': 'Using eloquent with composer and composer autoloading for database setup', 'summary': 'Explains how to pull in eloquent using composer, specifically version 4.2, by creating a 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756.097, 'text': 'So in here, we can now do create.', 'start': 753.797, 'duration': 2.3}, {'end': 762.599, 'text': 'You can say username is username and email.', 'start': 756.137, 'duration': 6.462}, {'end': 765.065, 'text': 'is email.', 'start': 764.545, 'duration': 0.52}, {'end': 772.187, 'text': "So now, this is going to use whatever's on the user model, which in our case, we have access to that Eloquent stuff.", 'start': 765.725, 'duration': 6.462}, {'end': 777.469, 'text': "And it's going to create it, except it's not, because we need to adjust a few more things.", 'start': 772.647, 'duration': 4.822}, {'end': 781.95, 'text': "So let's go to Home, Create, and let's create a new record altogether.", 'start': 778.309, 'duration': 3.641}, {'end': 789.395, 'text': "So this, remember, is the username we're passing into that method.", 'start': 786.314, 'duration': 3.081}, {'end': 790.296, 'text': 'And this is the email.', 'start': 789.435, 'duration': 0.861}, {'end': 793.217, 'text': 'So when I hit Enter, we unfortunately get an error.', 'start': 790.436, 'duration': 2.781}, {'end': 796.178, 'text': 'And this is because we have a mass assignment exception.', 'start': 793.537, 'duration': 2.641}, {'end': 804.362, 'text': 'Now, within Eloquent, this basically forces you, which is good, to provide which fields that you want to be fillable.', 'start': 796.959, 'duration': 7.403}, {'end': 808.304, 'text': "So all we do here is we say, in fact, let's keep that public name there.", 'start': 805.343, 'duration': 2.961}, {'end': 817.826, 'text': 'All we do is we say protected fillable, and then we give an array with the fillable fields that we want to protect ourselves against mass assignment.', 'start': 809.54, 'duration': 8.286}, {'end': 821.609, 'text': "So in this case, it's username and email.", 'start': 818.867, 'duration': 2.742}], 'summary': 'Using eloquent methods to create new records, protecting against mass assignment. username and email fields are fillable.', 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method, making it easier to integrate eloquent's database functionality into an mvc application.", 'duration': 320.436, 'highlights': ['Explaining how to protect against mass assignment by specifying fillable fields in Eloquent Eloquent requires specifying fillable fields to protect against mass assignment, such as username and email.', 'Demonstrating the usage and importance of timestamps and providing options for handling them in Eloquent Eloquent automatically handles timestamps, like created at and updated at, and provides options to include or exclude them in record creation.', 'Illustrating the use of static create method to create records in Eloquent, providing a simpler alternative A simpler alternative to using the constructor in Eloquent is the static create method, which simplifies the process of creating records.']}], 'duration': 468.742, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/pQG_jgttwps/pics/pQG_jgttwps541553.jpg', 'highlights': ['Eloquent allows for actions like user find one and user create within the user model', 'Explaining how to protect against mass assignment by specifying fillable fields in Eloquent', 'Demonstrating the usage and importance of timestamps and providing options for handling them in Eloquent', "Namespace the eloquent class to resolve the 'class eloquent not found' error", 'Illustrating the use of static create method to create records in Eloquent, providing a simpler alternative', "Explanation of creating a new method 'create' for user creation"]}], 'highlights': ["Laravel's Eloquent ORM simplifies database operations, including relationships and record creation.", "Composer is essential for installing Laravel's Illuminate database module, the framework's core.", 'The illuminate database package, specifically version 4.2, is required using Composer.', 'The process of pulling in Eloquent can be done by creating a composer.json file or using the command line.', 'Eloquent is pulled in using a capsule built for using it outside of the application.', 'Composer Autoloading allows for the automatic loading of classes and functionalities.', 'Eloquent allows for actions like user find one and user create within the user model', 'Explaining how to protect against mass assignment by specifying fillable fields in Eloquent', 'Demonstrating the usage and importance of timestamps and providing options for handling them in Eloquent', "Namespace the eloquent class to resolve the 'class eloquent not found' error", 'Illustrating the use of static create method to create records in Eloquent, providing a simpler alternative', "Explanation of creating a new method 'create' for user creation", 'Initializing Database Setup includes defining connection parameters and setting character encoding and collation.', 'The usage of the Carbon dependency for PHP date manipulation is highlighted.', 'The MVC application currently uses the model method to create a new instance of the user model.']}