Using Eloquent, Twig and Slim PHP - Revisited

It’s been about one and a half years since I made my blog post Using Eloquent, Twig and Slim PHP and a lot’s changed since then but I still love using these three tools for small websites. You can view all the code for this post here or if you’re looking for the original code from 2013 please switch to the 1.0 release.

Laravel 4.1 one-to-one polymorphic relationships

To use one-to-one polymorphic relationships in Laravel 4.1 use the "morphOne" method in your models. For example: I have two tables, pages and products. I want to be able to add one featured image to each of these. The Product model would look like this: <?php class Product extends Eloquent { public function image() { return $this->morphOne('FeaturedImage', 'imageable'); } } The Page model would be: <?php class Page extends Eloquent { public function image() { return $this->morphOne('FeaturedImage', 'imageable'); } }

Using Eloquent, Twig and Slim PHP

Note: See the update to this post where I've made several changes Originally while I was writing this blog I intended to make a step by step guide to putting together three of my favourite PHP tools. After a few issues and finding out that Slim Views is now a thing I decided instead to put together a git repo so anyone can get started quickly. I will use this blog post to quickly show how it works! *Note that this tutorial doesn’t aim to teach you Slim, Twig or Eloquent It’s to show you how to use them together effectively.* You can find the repo here: https://github.com/acoustep/slim-twig-eloquent After following the Installation instructions you should be able to use each component as well as Eloquent validation.