How to create new user in Laravel?

Question

I created the model:

<?php
use Illuminate\Auth\UserInterface;
use Illuminate\Auth\Reminders\RemindableInterface;

class ClientModel extends Eloquent implements UserInterface, RemindableInterface {

    protected $connection = 'local_db';
    protected $table      = 'administrators';
    protected $fillable   = ['user_id'];

    public function getAuthIdentifier()
    {
        return $this->username;
    }

    public function getAuthPassword()
    {
        return $this->password;
    }

    public function getRememberToken()
    {
        return $this->remember_token;
    }

    public function setRememberToken($value)
    {
        $this->remember_token = $value;
    }

    public function getRememberTokenName()
    {
        return 'remember_token';
    }

    public function getReminderEmail()
    {
        return $this->email;
    }
}

When I try to use it like this:

ClientModel::create(array(
    'username' => 'first_user',
    'password' => Hash::make('123456'),
    'email'    => '[email protected]'
));

It creates empty entry in DB...

Answer 1

Nowadays way :

User::create([
            'name' => $data['name'],
            'email' => $data['email'],
            'password' => Hash::make($data['password']),
        ]);

or even:

        $arrLcl = [];
        $arrLcl['name'] = $data['name'];
        $arrLcl['email'] = $data['email'];
        $arrLcl['password'] = $data['password'];
        User::create($arrLcl);

Answer 2

I think you make it too complicated. There is no need to make it this way. By default you have User model created and you should be able simple to create user this way:

$user = new User();
$user->username = 'something';
$user->password = Hash::make('userpassword');
$user->email = '[email protected]';
$user->save();

Maybe you wanted to achieve something more but I don't understand what you use so many methods here if you don't modify input or output here.