How would one type out $blah->save(); in php artisan if one is using MySQL?

Have you created a database migration for your testone model? Have you run php artisan migrate? Your error message is indicating that there isn't a corresponding table for your model.

Are you doing this on your machine or when you've SSH'd into the Homestead box?

@JoeDawson when Ive ssh'ed. So the steps should be the following.

vm (vagrant shh) cd Code/projectone; php artisan make:model testone php artisan migrate php artisan tinker $testone = new App\testone; $testone->rowone = "valueone"; $testone->rowtwo = "valuetwo"; $testone->rowthree = "valuethree"; $testone-save();

? is that right. Or am I suppose to

vm (vagrant shh) php artisan migrate

in a new terminal tab after I did the

$testone = new App\testone; $testone->rowone = "valueone"; $testone->rowtwo = "value two"; $testone->rowthree = "value three";

The first thing you want to do, is check your database - you're seeing an error that your table testones does not exist in your homestead database. I really hope I'm not coming across rude here, but the error is quite clear what's wrong - the errors are made to be as clear as possible to help you debug :)

If your table testones does not exist, then you need to run php artisan migrate as @jhoff suggested.

You'll get one of two messages, either "Nothing to migrate." - this means all of your migrations in your /database/migrations folder have been migrated to the database you specified.

Or, you'll receive a message saying that migration was successful. What do you get here?

No worries @JoeDawson , and I was receiving the error "Nothing to migrate". So I checked to see if it was in there with these steps

Cd Homestead; vm

mysql -u homestead -p .. use homestead; show tables;

And test one is indeed present.

Also when I am creating a table with php artisan, is this written out correctly?

php artisan make:migration testone --create="testone"

Or would it be

php artisan make:migration create_testone_table --create="testone"

Did you edit the migration before you ran php artisan migrate?

If not, that table will have only the default columns: id, created_at, and updated_at. Your earlier post indicates you were trying to save values to fields rowone, rowtwo, and rowthree. The way you wrote your example above is inserting three fields (columns) in the same record (row) i.e. you need to add those three columns to your migration before you run it.

//App/testone.php

protected $table = "testone";

Why?

In your Migration you call your database "testone"

php artisan make:migration testone --create="testone"

And your Model is also Called testone

php artisan make:model testone

Laravel Searches now for the Plural of "testone" so the database must be either named correctly "testones" or you need to pass the $table name to your model.