Eloquent (WITHOUT Laravel) get data from table with dynamic name - php

Question

I'm sure this is a totally simple question but for the life of me I'm stuck here- we're using Eloquent outside of Laravel due to PHP restrictions. I have a support ticket tracking app that I'm trying to update.
The data structure of this app is such that each ticket is assigned a UUID on submission and a table with that UUID as its name is generated and all changes to the ticket are tracked as new entries in that table.
Following some tutorials on Eloquent I got our models and controllers set up and working but for each one I see that I'm defining the table name in the model itself. IE our ticket model is
namespace Models;
use \Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
class Ticket extends Model {
protected $table = 'tickets';
protected $fillable = [table columns here];
}
and anything called in the tickets controller correctly and successfully reads and writes data to our tickets table.
So... my question is: how would I go about reading/writing/creating/deleting those previously mentioned UUID tables?
I've tried the built in table selector (ie- DB::table(uuid here) and DB::setTable(uuid here) but to no avail. I get Fatal error: Call to undefined method Models\Database::setTable()
What I'm after is a model/controller that I can reuse for ANY dynamically-named table.

Answer 1

You could create a generic model and dynamically set the table name, like this:
namespace Models;
use \Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
class FormerUUIDTicket extends Model {
protected $table = 'some_table';
protected $fillable = [table columns here];
}
class SomeController
{
public function someAction()
{
$uuid = $_POST['uuid_field']; //some uuid, the table name
$model = new FormerUUIDTicket;
$model->setTable($uuid);
return $model->get(); //do anything using eloquent with proper table
}
}
Make sure that you always set the table name before use, or it will fail. Don't use static function either, for the same reason.