I was wondering what is the exact difference between model and entity when speaking in the context of Laravel and MVC. I googled some answers but they're not clear enough for me. What I understood is that they're almost the same but entity is more emphasizing on persistence while model is a class to access entity instances in different ways. Can someone clarify these terms, please?
I think the only difference is the name (at least, in the Laravel environment). I saw projects where the models (as you know them) were called "entities" but they do exactly the same.
The laravel docs also states the following. Which already indicates that the term "models" is not adopted by everyone.
Where Is The Models Directory?
When getting started with Laravel, many developers are confused by the lack of a models directory. However, the lack of such a directory is intentional. We find the word "models" ambiguous since it means many different things to many different people. Some developers refer to an application's "model" as the totality of all of its business logic, while others refer to "models" as classes that interact with a relational database.
For this reason, we choose to place Eloquent models in the app directory by default, and allow the developer to place them somewhere else if they choose.
Laravel doesn't have entities (active record). Hibernate and Doctrine ORM does.
Model is a very loose term, PDO is just retrieving a "database" record or records. Some here for whatever reason has attached the term "model" to a stored database record.
Also entity framework in .net core has "entities, i.e.,
namespace petcore22.Models
{
[Table("pets")]
public class Pet
{
[Key]
public int PetID { get; set; }
[Required(ErrorMessage = "Enter Name")]
public string PetName { get; set; }
[DisplayFormat(DataFormatString = "{0:MM/dd/yyyy}", ApplyFormatInEditMode = true)]
public DateTime? Odate { get; set; }
public bool Ocheck { get; set; }
}
