Laravel Naming Conventions
As a Laravel Developer you should be aware of Laravel\’s naming conventions. How we generally name Laravel files, classes, routes, Controllers Models and everything else.
So find the below mentioned list followed by Laravel community
Naming Conventions
| Controller | singular | ArticleController | ArticlesController |
| Route | plural | articles/1 | article/1 |
| Named route | snake_case with dot notation | users.show_active | users.show-active, show-active-users |
| Model | singular | User | Users |
| hasOne or belongsTo relationship | singular | articleComment | articleComments, article_comment |
| All other relationships | plural | articleComments | articleComment, article_comments |
| Table | plural | article_comments | article_comment, articleComments |
| Pivot table | singular model names in alphabetical order | article_user | user_article, articles_users |
| Table column | snake_case without model name | meta_title | MetaTitle; article_meta_title |
| Model property | snake_case | $model->created_at | $model->createdAt |
| Foreign key | singular model name with _id suffix | article_id | ArticleId, id_article, articles_id |
| Primary key | – | id | custom_id |
| Migration | – | 2017_01_01_000000_create_articles_table | 2017_01_01_000000_articles |
| Method | camelCase | getAll | get_all |
| Method in resource controller | table | store | saveArticle |
| Method in test class | camelCase | testGuestCannotSeeArticle | test_guest_cannot_see_article |
| Variable | camelCase | $articlesWithAuthor | $articles_with_author |
| Collection | descriptive, plural | $activeUsers = User::active()->get() | $active, $data |
| Object | descriptive, singular | $activeUser = User::active()->first() | $users, $obj |
| Config and language files index | snake_case | articles_enabled | ArticlesEnabled; articles-enabled |
| View | kebab-case | show-filtered.blade.php | showFiltered.blade.php, show_filtered.blade.php |
| Config | snake_case | user_calendar.php | googleCalendar.php, google-calendar.php |
| Contract (interface) | adjective or noun | AuthenticationInterface | Authenticatable, IAuthentication |
| Trait | adjective | Notifiable | NotificationTrait |
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