From e540fd3b6d39410ff27f614c51ed0c95236788da Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Taylor Otwell <taylorotwell@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2012 14:11:11 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Automatically detect eloquent table names.

---
 laravel/database/eloquent/model.php                   | 11 +++++++++++
 .../relationships/has_many_and_belongs_to.php         |  5 +++--
 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/laravel/database/eloquent/model.php b/laravel/database/eloquent/model.php
index c8522beb..fc7b0380 100644
--- a/laravel/database/eloquent/model.php
+++ b/laravel/database/eloquent/model.php
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 <?php namespace Laravel\Database\Eloquent;
 
+use Laravel\Str;
 use Laravel\Database;
 use Laravel\Database\Eloquent\Relationships\Has_Many_And_Belongs_To;
 
@@ -418,6 +419,16 @@ abstract class Model {
 		return ! $this->exists or $this->original !== $this->attributes;
 	}
 
+	/**
+	 * Get the name of the table associated with the model.
+	 *
+	 * @return string
+	 */
+	public function table()
+	{
+		return static::$table ?: strtolower(Str::plural(basename(get_class($this))));
+	}
+
 	/**
 	 * Get the dirty attributes for the model.
 	 *
diff --git a/laravel/database/eloquent/relationships/has_many_and_belongs_to.php b/laravel/database/eloquent/relationships/has_many_and_belongs_to.php
index 7f3c01b0..23b8765a 100644
--- a/laravel/database/eloquent/relationships/has_many_and_belongs_to.php
+++ b/laravel/database/eloquent/relationships/has_many_and_belongs_to.php
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 <?php namespace Laravel\Database\Eloquent\Relationships;
 
+use Laravel\Str;
 use Laravel\Database\Eloquent\Model;
 use Laravel\Database\Eloquent\Pivot;
 
@@ -48,7 +49,7 @@ class Has_Many_And_Belongs_To extends Relationship {
 	/**
 	 * Determine the joining table name for the relationship.
 	 *
-	 * By default, the name is the models sorted and concatenated with an underscore.
+	 * By default, the name is the models sorted and joined with underscores.
 	 *
 	 * @return string
 	 */
@@ -140,7 +141,7 @@ class Has_Many_And_Belongs_To extends Relationship {
 	{
 		// All joining tables get creation and update timestamps automatically even though
 		// some developers may not need them. This just provides them if necessary since
-		// it would be a pain for the developer to maintain them manually.
+		// it would be a pain for the developer to maintain them each manually.
 		$attributes['created_at'] = $this->model->get_timestamp();
 
 		$attributes['updated_at'] = $attributes['created_at'];