Using Eloquent ORM from Laravel 4 outside of Laravel

Question

I created a folder 'eloquent' to start testing/learning the component, and my composer.json file is:

{
  "require": {
    "php": ">=5.3.0",
    "illuminate/database": "4.0.*"
  }
}

Below is my test.php file, with credentials removed. It works great, until I add ->remember(10) into the command. I'd like to look into adding the Illuminate Cache next then, if that's what's needed to start using ->remember(). Is anyone aware of any blog posts or tutorials on doing something like this?

<?php
/**
 * Testing Laravel's Eloquent ORM
 * @see https://github.com/illuminate/database
 * @see http://laravel.com/docs/database
 */
require 'vendor/autoload.php';

use Illuminate\Database\Capsule\Manager as Capsule;

$capsule = new Capsule;

$capsule->addConnection(array(
  'driver'    => '',
  'host'      => '',
  'database'  => '',
  'username'  => '',
  'password'  => '',
  'charset'   => 'utf8',
  'collation' => 'utf8_unicode_ci',
  'prefix'    => '',
  ));

//$capsule->bootEloquent();
$capsule->setAsGlobal();

$name = Capsule::table('user')->where('id', 123 )->remember(10)->get();

var_dump( $name );

// PHP Fatal error:  Uncaught exception 'ReflectionException' with message 'Class cache does not exist'

I'm not sure what the next step is to get ->remember() working. I tried adding illuminate/cache to the composer.json file and updated. I wasn't sure how to use it with Eloquent, outside of Laravel.

Answer 1

saff33r is right, but just to help someone like me that need "file" cache this is how to:
in your composer.json

    "illuminate/cache": "4.0.*",
    "illuminate/filesystem": "4.0.*",

in your boot file:

    use \Illuminate\Database\Capsule\Manager as Capsule;
    use \Illuminate\Cache\CacheManager as CacheManager;
    use \Illuminate\Filesystem\Filesystem as Filesystem;
    ...

    $container = $capsule->getContainer();
    $container['config']['cache.driver'] = 'file';
    $container['config']['cache.path'] = __DIR__ . '/uploads/cache/eloquent';
    $container['config']['cache.connection'] = null;
    $container['files'] = new Filesystem();

    $cacheManager = new CacheManager($container);
    $capsule->setCacheManager($cacheManager);
    $capsule->bootEloquent();

Answer 2

It should already be pulling in "illuminate/cache", look in vendor and you should see it there.

You need to setup the cache manager, then pass that through by calling

$capsule->setCacheManager(CacheManager $cache);

I've not looked under the hood for details on how to do this but hopefully this will be enough details to get you going forward.

Edit:

Here's what you need to add to get it working:

use Illuminate\Cache\CacheManager as CacheManager;

$container = $capsule->getContainer();

$container->offsetGet('config')->offsetSet('cache.driver', 'array');

$cacheManager = new CacheManager($container);

$capsule->setCacheManager($cacheManager);

Obviously feel free to change the Cache Driver used but keep in mind that changing the Cache Driver will require adding the extra required settings.