Model

MVC can be metaphorically related to a TV. You have various channels, with different information on them supplied by your cable provider (the model). The TV screen displays these channels to you (the view). You pressing the buttons on the remote controls affects what you see and how you see it (the controller). -Tilo Mitra

The model acts as relational mapper for SQL.

Generate a Model

php brood make:model TicketLogs
> Crafting Model...
>    Model has been created!

The above code will generate a file containing a class that acts as our model, located at project-name/components/Model/TicketLogs.php.

<?php
namespace Components\Model;

use Components\Model\Traits\Timestampable;
use Components\Model\Traits\SoftDeletable;

class TicketLogs extends Model
{
    use Timestampable;
    use SoftDeletable;

    public function getSource()
    {
        return 'ticketlogs';
    }
}

We have the function getSource(), which refers to the table name in our database.

The above class of code, we're using Timestampable and SoftDeletable traits which holds an events.

The Timestampable holds the created_at and updated_at, when we'll be adding or updating a record, it will automatically logs timestamp format.

The SoftDeletable holds the deleted_at column of your table, when deleting, it will fill the field.

Learn More

To learn more, you can fully review the whole models documentation, we also linked the PHQL language that refers to Phalcon Query Language.