eloquent - How to return database table name in Laravel

Question

Is there a way that I can get the current database table in use by the model that I'm in? I see that there is a table() function in Laravel/Database/Eloquent/model.php but I've been unsuccessful calling it calling it from the model that I'm in.

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14082682/how-to-return-database-table-name-in-laravel

Answer 1

Edit April 2019: This answer is now out of date. See the new correct answer by Flyn San

Yes - Eloquent has a $table variable. There are two ways you can access this:

class yourModel extends Eloquent {

        public static $table = "differentTable";

        function someFunction()
        {
             return yourModel::$table;
        }
}

or

class yourModel extends Eloquent {

    public function someFunction()
    {
        return $this->table();

    }
}

then in your code

Route::get('/', function () {
    $model = new yourModel();   
    dd($model->someFunction());
});