how can i use __construct in conjuction with controller in laravel - php

Question

I have built laravel applications in Laravel 4 and Laravel 5, but I decided this time to write all my tests first, having never previously written tests at all for trivial apps.
Here is my Account class - for illustration
class Account extends Model
{
protected $customer_id;
protected $bookmaker_id;
protected $balance;
protected $profit;
public function __construct($customer_id, $bookmaker_id, $balance, $profit) {
$this->customer_id = $customer_id;
$this->bookmaker_id = $bookmaker_id;
$this->balance = $balance;
$this->profit = $profit;
}
}
So all my unit tests run fine:
My route is set up correctly to the page I want to display
Route::get('/accounts', 'AccountController#index');
but this is where it goes wrong. Actually trying to run a page to get a list of accounts is troublesome. I know there is more to do with the controller class but here is what I have.
<?php
namespace App\Http\Controllers;
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use App\Http\Requests;
use App\Http\Controllers\Controller;
use App\Account;
class AccountController extends Controller
{
/**
* Display a listing of the resource.
*
* #return \Illuminate\Http\Response
*/
public function index()
{
$accounts = Account::all();
return view('account.index', compact('accounts'));
}
}
Then I get this error -
ErrorException in Account.php line 14:
Missing argument 1 for App\Account::__construct(), called in /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/mb-app/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Database/Eloquent/Model.php on line 665 and defined
Can someone tell me how I should be setting up my controller please? Until I added the __construct() for my unit tests this was all going ok.
Thanks.

Answer 1

By using __construct, it expects arguments any time you initialize it. So instead, you'd use
$accountModel = new Account($customer_id, $bookmaker_id, $balance, $profit);
$accounts = $accountModel->all();
If you want to use those variables for creating a new model, look into $fillable.