Folder for Models Laravel 5.1

Question

Good morning, different from Laravel 4, the version 5.1 creates the Models directly in the folder App, wanted to know if it will influence something if I create folders to better organize these Models.

Answer 1

You will have to change the namespace of the model classes. For example

namespace App\Models;

If the folder you create is called Models (case sensitive) and is within app. This is because the composer.json is configured to auto-load the classes inside the app folder in the PSR-4 template.

"autoload": {
    "classmap": [
        "database"            
    ],
    "psr-4": {
        "App\\": "app/",
        "App\\Models\\": "app/Models/"
    }
}

After the change, you will have to run a composer dumpautoload to generate the new class of autoload.

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If you are using Laravel’s native authentication systems, you will need to change the file auth.php in config.

/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Authentication Model
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| When using the "Eloquent" authentication driver, we need to know which
| Eloquent model should be used to retrieve your users. Of course, it
| is often just the "User" model but you may use whatever you like.
|
*/

'model' => App\Models\User::class,

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If you are using JWT, you will need to change the jwt.php in config

/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| User Model namespace
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| Specify the full namespace to your User model.
| e.g. 'Acme\Entities\User'
|
*/

'user' => 'App\Models\User',

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In short

Personally, I believe it is good practice to create templates within a specific folder. Laravel offers easy reconfiguration of all dependencies for this.