How do I instruct artisan to save model to specific directory?

I'm using Laravel 5. I have created a /Models directory under the /App directory, but when generating the models using Artisan it's storing them under the App directory.

/Models

/App

App

I have searched the documentation to try and find how to specify a different path name, but to no avail:

php artisan make:model TestModel


How do I instruct artisan to save the model to specific directory?

artisan

/app

6 Answers
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If you want to specify the path when generating a model, you can use the Laravel Generators Package. You can then specify the location using the --path option like so:

--path

php artisan generate:model TestModel --path=my/custom/location


exception 'InvalidArgumentException' with message 'There are no commands defined in the "generate" namespace.' in /Users/me/wwwl/vendor/symfony/console/Symfony/Component/Console/Application.php:501

"way/generators": "~3.0"

composer.json

"--path" option does not exist

Create a Models directory or whatever your want to named it, put it in inside app directory. The Directory structure should look like

laravel-project
/app
/Console
/Events
/Exceptions
/Http
/Jobs
/Listeners
/Provider
/Models


Then You just need to type artisan command for creating models inside Models directory

php artisan make:model Models/ModelName


After Creating Models your namespace inside model classes will be

namespace app-nameModelsModelName


You can access this model in inside your controller

use app-nameModelsModelName


For those using Laravel >= 5.2

It is possible to generate a model in a subdirectory using built-in Artisan generators by "escaping" the backslashes in the FQN, like so:

php artisan model:make App\Models\Foo


php artisan make:model App\Models\Foo


(the difference between 5.2 and 5.3 pointed out by @Khaled Rahman, thanks!)

Commands above would create Foo.php file in the app/Models directory and update the namespace accordingly.

Foo.php

Hope that helps.

php artisan make:model App\Models\Foo

php artisan make:model Models/Foo

Models

In Laravel 5.4 you can create with

> php artisan make:model "ModelsuserModel"


here Models is directory name and userModel is model name

Use " (double quotes) or ' (single quotes) to create model

Controller path (ApI/Admin)

Model path(Model/Admin)

php artisan make:controller API/Admin/PlanController --model=Model/Admin/Plan --resource

This works for actual Laravel version, 5.6.28, on Windows 7

5.6.28

php artisan make:model AppModelsNewModel


Note: Do not use double escapes ('\')

'\'

This generate the file AppModelsNewModel.php as follows

AppModelsNewModel.php

<?php

namespace AppModels;

use IlluminateDatabaseEloquentModel;

class NewModel extends Model
{
//
}


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