How does eloquent recognize tables?

Question

I am curious about how eloquent knows in which table it should save the records we give it by running $ php artisan tinker . I do not actually remember setting

Answer 1

Actually if you not set the $table property, Eloquent will automatically look the snake case and plural name of the class name. For example if class name is User, it will users.

Here the code taken from Illuminate/Database/Eloquent/Model.php

public function getTable()
{
    if (isset($this->table)) {
        return $this->table;
    }

    return str_replace('\\', '', Str::snake(Str::plural(class_basename($this))));
}