laravel eloquent orm view - php

Question

My ultimate goal is to print the contents of a table in a database to a table in HTML using Laravel's ORM.
Beyond that I know how to configure the database file, but is there any other things i need to configure.
From my understanding I need three files. Do i need to make a controller? If so how does that work?
Item Class
Route.php
views.php
Here is what I have so far
Item.php
<?php namespace App;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
class Item extends Model {
protected $table = 'items';
protected $primaryKey = 'item_id';
public function products()
{
return $this->belongsTo('item_id', 'item_name', 'item_cost');
}
}
routes.php
<?php
Route::get('Product', function()
{
$products = \App\items::all();
return view('Items', $items);
});
and I have no idea how to create a view in HTML.
I know I'm completely off at this point, but I've read the documentation and I am still completely lost when they reference things like URI and have URL in the same sentence without defining or even linking to it elsewhere in the documentation.

Answer 1

Actually, you have declared your Eloquent ORM like this:
class Item extends Model {
// ...
}
But you are using that model/class like this:
$products = \App\items::all();
In this case, \App\items doesn't exist, it should be:
$items = \App\Item::all(); // <-- Item not items
return view('items', $items); // <-- $items not $products
You asked: Do i need to make a controller?
In this case, no, it'll work fine with the anonymous function but using a Controller is better for many reasons.
Update:
Create a view in resources/views as items.blade.php and you can print out the items through a foreach loop. Check the documentation.