L5.5, setTable() doesn't work? What I am doing wrong?

im not sure what you are trying to achieve but your code does not make any sense.

You cannot make a table from an eloquent model

If you want some inspiration about how to create a table, make a migration and review the code that gets generated.

This is quite advanced though so you probably have the wrong concepts somewhere

just want to swith to another table. it's a temporal table. called movements_temp .with same fields.... but didn't work. do i tried with 'e' just to see if it trhows an errror. but its working on "movements" table, when it shouldn't.

You should be able to switch to a different table if it already exists?

i know that i should be able, but i tried abd it doesn't work. why? and if i put a table that doesn't exist, it should thrpw an error, shoukdn't? but i tried with the example I put here and it's working against the original table called "movements" all the time, it doesn't matter what I do. I would thank if someone tries or writes here an example.

ok, I see what is happening.

setTable works fine, but when you use Create it does not use the instance of $movement. It creates a new model which uses the model table.

Instead of create, fill the model you already have;

$movement = new Movement(); 

$movement->setTable('e')->fill($data);

$movement->save();

Ok. I will try and I will tell you, but it looks like good