# Entity

Entity actually refers to data item. For example product.

To create a Entity and store data, we need to create a table structure as shown in this ER diagram and to store values to these tables we need to create a model that does it.

This package provides artisan commands that will simplify the process of creating tables and models.

$ php artisan eav:make:entity [entity_code] [entity_class_name] 

The above command will create both the migration and model for the entity.

Two migrations will be created main table and entity data type table. The main table is the master table which hold the primary key, meta-data for the entity.

You can also add additional columns to this main table, these columns are refered as static attibutes.

$ php artisan eav:make:model [entity_class_name] -e [entity_code]

The above command will create entity model file for the given entity code.

namespace App;

use Eav\Model;

class Products extends Model
{
    const ENTITY  = 'product';

    //
}

To view the Entity model

$product = Products::find(1);

# instance of Eav\Entity

$product->baseEntity();