How to use NeoEloquent outside of Laravel?

[ghost]

Is there a way to use NeoEloquent outside of Laravel, and if so, how?

Specifically, how do I instantiate things and define configuration so that I can use the Eloquent class for designing model classes?

(There are a few resources on how to use Illuminate outside of Laravel, but they're quite old and I haven't been able to get them to work.)

[netpoe]

Well, here's my approach, I'm trying to do the same.

Everything seemed fine until an exception regarding the connection with the real Eloquent Model.

My first steps:

composer require vinelab/neoeloquent

Then, I proceeded to do the connection:

<?php 

namespace Elang;

use Vinelab\NeoEloquent\Connection;

class Application
{
    protected $connection;

    public function run()
    {
        $this->connect();

        return $this;
    }

    public function connect()
    {
        $databaseConfig = dirname(__DIR__, 1) . '/config/database.php';
        $connections = require($databaseConfig);
        $neo4j = $connections['connections']['neo4j'];
        $connection = new Connection($neo4j);

        try {
            $connection->createConnection();
            $this->connection = $connection->getClient();
        } catch (\Exception $e) {
            error_log($e->getMessage());
            die();
        }

        return $this;
    }

    public function getConnection()
    {
        return $this->connection;
    }
}

Where the DB config is config/database.php:

<?php 

return [
    'connections' => [
        'neo4j' => [
            'host'   => 'localhost',
            'port'   => '7687',
            'username' => null,
            'password' => null,
        ]
    ]
];

And later run the application:

$app = new Elang\Application;
$app->run();

The connection didn't throw an exception so I assumed it was cool.

However, when defining a Model:

<?php 

namespace Elang\Model;

use Vinelab\NeoEloquent\Eloquent\Model;

class Word extends Model
{
    protected $label = 'Word';

    protected $fillable = ['text'];
}

I wonder if this is the right Model to extend from.

I'm using it as:

$word = \Elang\Model\Word::create(['text' => 'word']);

But I'm getting an exception:

Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to a member function connection() on null in ~/elangapi/vendor/illuminate/database/Eloquent/Model.php:3339
Stack trace:
#0 ~/elangapi/vendor/illuminate/database/Eloquent/Model.php(3305): Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model::resolveConnection(NULL)
#1 ~/elangapi/vendor/vinelab/neoeloquent/src/Vinelab/NeoEloquent/Eloquent/Model.php(67): Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model->getConnection()
#2 ~/elangapi/vendor/illuminate/database/Eloquent/Model.php(1832): Vinelab\NeoEloquent\Eloquent\Model->newBaseQueryBuilder()
#3 ~/elangapi/vendor/illuminate/database/Eloquent/Model.php(1451): Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model->newQueryWithoutScopes()
#4 ~/elangapi/vendor/illuminate/database/Eloquent/Model.php(562): Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model->save()
#5 ~/elangapi/src/Scraper/es_M in ~/elangapi/vendor/illuminate/database/Eloquent/Model.php on line 3339

Hope it gives you some hints and maybe you've tried a different approach that is working

[netpoe]

Well, finally I found a solution inspired by the tests.

It's not using Eloquent at all, so I cannot create Models, but it's using NeoEloquent:

public function createWord()
    {
        $connection = $this->app->getConnection();

        $create = 'CREATE (w:Word {word: {word}})';
        $cypher = $connection->getCypherQuery($create, [
            ['word' => 'gato'],
        ]);

        $results = $cypher->getResultSet();
    }

The $connection = $this->app->getConnection(); line contains the following:

public function connect()
    {
        $databaseConfig = dirname(__DIR__, 1) . '/config/database.php';
        $connections = require($databaseConfig);
        $neo4j = $connections['connections']['neo4j'];

        try {
            $this->connection = new Connection($neo4j);
        } catch (\Exception $e) {
            error_log($e->getMessage());
            die();
        }

        return $this;
    }

And the config/database.php file is using the defaults

<?php 

return [
    'connections' => [
        'neo4j' => [
            'driver' => 'neo4j',
            'host'   => 'localhost',
            'port'   => '7474',
            'username' => 'neo4j',
            'password' => 'neo',
            'path' => '/data',
        ]
    ]
];

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