# Under Laravel Eloquent's Hood: The Artisan of the Day Is Chris Morrell.

DevFeed: [Under Laravel Eloquent's Hood: The Artisan of the Day Is Chris Morrell.](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/under-laravel-eloquent-s-hood-the-artisan-of-the-day-is-chris-morrell-3925.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://laravel.com/blog/under-laravel-eloquents-hood-the-artisan-of-the-day-is-chris-morrell>)

Author: Ana Tavares

Published: 2025-08-09T16:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Laravel Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/laravel-blog.md>)

Topics: [Eloquent ORM](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/eloquent.md>), [Laravel](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/laravel.md>), [PHP](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/php.md>), [Code](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/code.md>), [Framework](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/framework.md>), [MySQL](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/mysql.md>), [Claude](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/claude.md>), [Artificial Intelligence](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai.md>)

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## AI overview

This developer article profiles Chris Morrell and his deep exploration of Laravel Eloquent. It explains that Eloquent relationships are built from query builders and PHP code, then presents unconventional examples involving comma-separated IDs, geographic distance calculations in MySQL, generated test data, and Claude-powered predictions.

## Source excerpt

Chris Morrell believes Eloquent relations are just PHP code, like everything else in the Laravel framework.