PHP Lumen Call to a member function connection() on null

Question

Call to a member function connection() on null is the error I'm receiving when trying to use an Eloquent Model in Lumen.

Controller func:

/**
     * Display a listing of the resource.
     *
     * @return \Illuminate\Http\Response
     */
    public function index(Request $request)
    {

        $employees = Employee::orderBy('first_name', 'asc')->get();
dd($employees);

        $response['precontent'] = view('admin::employee.search')->render();

        $response['content'] = view('admin::employee.index')
            ->with(['employees' => $employees])
            ->render();

        $response['title'] = 'Employees';

        return $response; 

    }

Model:

    <?php
    namespace App;

use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;

class Employee extends Model 
{

    protected $table = 'system_core.employees';

    protected $fillable = [
        'user_id',
        'first_name',
        'last_name',
        'position',
        'primary_address',
        'secondary_address',
        'phone_1',
        'phone_2',
        'birth_date',
        'start_date',
        'end_date'
    ];

}

I'm pretty experienced with Laravel, but just started my first Lumen project for mere API use and I'm not sure why this error is being thrown. Perhaps it's just my connection settings? Would all queries have to be run the following way?:

$results = app('db')->select("SELECT * FROM users");

Thank you!

Answer 1

You should uncomment the Eloquent $app->withEloquent() call in bootstrap/app.php.

https://lumen.laravel.com/docs/5.2/database#basic-usage

Update:

Latest version of the docs https://lumen.laravel.com/docs/5.8/database, check section Eloquent ORM