Wait though – so the model binding calls through into the DB as well, via Eloquent? That’s cool out of the box, but I hope it’s tweakable. Say e.g. I want to use Doctrine. And also, I want the model binding more on form input.
Use of strings for controller methods is a bit of a downside, but that’s part of the nature of PHP I guess. And maybe it will have its upsides too (i.e. building a string to determine which controller/method). We’ll see.
Odd issue where I had to run php artisan key:generate in order to get things working. Maybe because it’s 5.5 instead of 5.4 which is used in the videos? Love the debug page for Laravel though with its links to a pre-populated stackoverflow search.