Changing the name of the "users" table to account Laravel 5 - laravel

Question

Fairly new to Laravel and would like to follow the table conventions I'm used to.
The default table name for accounts is "users" and I'd like to change it to "account." If anything, I'd like to change it to "user" and remove the plural.
I've already used migrate to make a cloned table of users called "account" and I'm just trying to figure out what all I have to do to existing code to make it work for logging in
It looks like I'll have to somehow update "app/Http/Auth/AuthController.php", but I'm not quit sure what it is I'll have to do...
Do I need to:
Update "use Illuminate\Foundation\Auth\AuthenticatesAndRegistersUsers;"?
Update in AuthController "returnUser::create" to "returnAccount::create"? If so do I need to go somewhere else in the code where that class User is being created?
I guess another option is just scrapping their AuthController and establishing my own and just calling a new object of Account... Is this the route I should take?

Answer 1

I would simply extend the User class and overrule some things if you want to have the Model named Account:
Edit the table property in the Account class, see: https://github.com/laravel/laravel/blob/master/app/User.php#L24
Account extends User {
protected $table = 'accounts';
}
Once your class Account is created edit the configured authentication class, see:
https://github.com/laravel/laravel/blob/master/config/auth.php#L31
If you only want to overrule the table used by User, edit the User class:
protected $table = 'accounts';
To be honest, why bother? Taylor provided this skeleton for you to kickstart your application, why not use that especially if you're new to Laravel?

Answer 2

Firstly, create account(s) migration - plural is widely acceptable
Migration must contain all important fields
<?php
use Illuminate\Database\Schema\Blueprint;
use Illuminate\Database\Migrations\Migration;
class CreateAccountsTable extends Migration
{
public function up()
{
Schema::create('accounts', function (Blueprint $table) {
$table->increments('id');
$table->string('name');
$table->string('email')->unique();
$table->string('password', 60);
$table->rememberToken();
$table->timestamps();
});
}
public function down()
{
Schema::drop('accounts');
}
}
Then create Account model,
<?php namespace App;
use Illuminate\Auth\Authenticatable;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
use Illuminate\Auth\Passwords\CanResetPassword;
use Illuminate\Foundation\Auth\Access\Authorizable;
use Illuminate\Contracts\Auth\Authenticatable as AuthenticatableContract;
use Illuminate\Contracts\Auth\Access\Authorizable as AuthorizableContract;
use Illuminate\Contracts\Auth\CanResetPassword as CanResetPasswordContract;
class Account extends Model implements AuthenticatableContract,
AuthorizableContract,
CanResetPasswordContract
{
use Authenticatable, Authorizable, CanResetPassword;
protected $table = 'accounts';
protected $fillable = ['name', 'email', 'password'];
protected $hidden = ['password', 'remember_token'];
}
head over to config\auth.php and change this line:
'model' => App\User::class,
to
'model' => App\Account::class,