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php artisan tinker

When following along with this tutorial: https://laracasts.com/series/laravel-5-fundamentals/episodes/8 first my app folder dosent contain Articles.php file

seccond when i type php artisan tinker on my shell of laragon local server its show something like this

λ php artisan tinker Psy Shell v0.6.1 (PHP 5.6.13 ظ€¤ cli) by Justin Hileman

sname = 'jeff' PHP Parse error: Syntax error, unexpected '=' on line 1 sname = 'jeff';

but when lecturer on tutorial type this , dosnt recieve some thing like this [1] > ...

what is my problem?

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tykus
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The Article model (app/Article.php) is created in the first minute of that tutorial on the commandline using:

php artisan make:model Article

A variable in PHP begins with a dollar sign $, so your code should read:

$name = 'jeff';
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