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Last Updated: 2024-04-25
I inherited a Laravel (MVC/ORM web app framework) project and it had no
User.php model so I assumed there must be no users table.
I ended up writing a migration for this users table but then it failed: In
fact, the table was already present!
I should have inspected the database (or the migrations) when initially inheriting the code. What threw me off was that I did not see a user model anywhere.
When starting a project, inspect the actual DB structure as well as the codebase.
The ORM models are not a full picture of the DB structure.