B) Move files in public directory one folder higher, modify index.php removing the up directory “../” from the includes.

C) Make an .htaccess file in the root something to the effect of

RewriteEngine On

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ public/$1 [L]

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public function scopeFewerPagesThan( $query, $pages ) {
return $query->where( 'books.pages', '<=', $pages ); } }

Using scoping

I often see confusion when we try to use scoping. Some would expect the following to give them back all 'autobiography' books:


Book::type('autobiography'); // This works right? Nope!


But it doesn't. Scoping functions will only refine your query. For instance all the following are great examples of using scoping:


Book::type('autobiography')->get();
Book::with('author')->type('autobiography')->get();
Book::fewerPagesThan(500)->type('autobiography')->get();


Building up scopes

When using scopes to refine and filter down which Models to retrieve, you will always need to add a ->get() at the end. This allows you can chain multiple "scopes" onto each other as in the 3rd example. Basically it needs to know when you are done filtering down and when to actually hit the database.

So the 3rd example could be broken down like this to really drive home the point:


$maxPages = 500;

$books = new Book();
$books->type('autobiography');
if( $maxPages )
$books->fewerPagesThan($maxPages);
$opportunities->get();


In every case before the ->get() call $books var is a Eloquent/Builder that is being built up.

After the ->get() call $books var gets overwritten with an Eloquent/Collection that has been filled with our data from the database.

This is a very powerful and flexible to way to scope and filter down models that are in your database. It is better to filter them down with scopes in the DB query than filter down a collection that has already been loaded into memory. Make the your DB do some weight lifting for you.

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Find()

Naturally to get one model just use:
User::find( $id );
You could loop over the ::find() to pull each one manually, but that will result in multiple unnecessary queries to the database right? Who wants that?

Find() with Array

Here is a quite simple approach that Eloquent supports that seems quite obvious after you see it. You can just pass an array of model ids right to the find() function!

$arr = array($id1, $id2, $id3);
User::find( $arr );

This will return a collection of models just as you would expect, no fussing around with loops.  A simple way to get Multiple Specific Laravel Models by Id.

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