Questions & Answers

Soft deletes mark records as deleted without physically removing them from the table.

API Resources transform Eloquent models into controlled JSON representations.

Laravel pagination limits large result sets and generates navigation links.

Local scopes allow reusable query constraints to be defined inside an Eloquent model.

Accessors transform model attributes when reading them and mutators transform values when setting them.

Attribute casting converts selected model attributes into useful PHP data types or structures.

The fillable property defines which model attributes may be assigned using mass assignment.

N+1 occurs when one query loads parent records and an additional query is executed for each parent relationship.

Eager loading loads related records together with the primary query.

belongsTo defines the inverse side of a relationship where the current model belongs to another model.

A one-to-many relationship connects one parent model with multiple child records.

Eloquent is Laravel ORM for working with database records using PHP models.