Using Eloquent ORM from Laravel 4 outside of Laravel - laravel

Question

I created a folder 'eloquent' to start testing/learning the component, and my composer.json file is:
{
"require": {
"php": ">=5.3.0",
"illuminate/database": "4.0.*"
}
}
Below is my test.php file, with credentials removed. It works great, until I add ->remember(10) into the command. I'd like to look into adding the Illuminate Cache next then, if that's what's needed to start using ->remember(). Is anyone aware of any blog posts or tutorials on doing something like this?
<?php
/**
* Testing Laravel's Eloquent ORM
* #see https://github.com/illuminate/database
* #see http://laravel.com/docs/database
*/
require 'vendor/autoload.php';
use Illuminate\Database\Capsule\Manager as Capsule;
$capsule = new Capsule;
$capsule->addConnection(array(
'driver' => '',
'host' => '',
'database' => '',
'username' => '',
'password' => '',
'charset' => 'utf8',
'collation' => 'utf8_unicode_ci',
'prefix' => '',
));
//$capsule->bootEloquent();
$capsule->setAsGlobal();
$name = Capsule::table('user')->where('id', 123 )->remember(10)->get();
var_dump( $name );
// PHP Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'ReflectionException' with message 'Class cache does not exist'
I'm not sure what the next step is to get ->remember() working. I tried adding illuminate/cache to the composer.json file and updated. I wasn't sure how to use it with Eloquent, outside of Laravel.

Answer 1

saff33r is right, but just to help someone like me that need "file" cache this is how to:
in your composer.json
"illuminate/cache": "4.0.*",
"illuminate/filesystem": "4.0.*",
in your boot file:
use \Illuminate\Database\Capsule\Manager as Capsule;
use \Illuminate\Cache\CacheManager as CacheManager;
use \Illuminate\Filesystem\Filesystem as Filesystem;
...
$container = $capsule->getContainer();
$container['config']['cache.driver'] = 'file';
$container['config']['cache.path'] = __DIR__ . '/uploads/cache/eloquent';
$container['config']['cache.connection'] = null;
$container['files'] = new Filesystem();
$cacheManager = new CacheManager($container);
$capsule->setCacheManager($cacheManager);
$capsule->bootEloquent();

Answer 2

It should already be pulling in "illuminate/cache", look in vendor and you should see it there.
You need to setup the cache manager, then pass that through by calling
$capsule->setCacheManager(CacheManager $cache);
I've not looked under the hood for details on how to do this but hopefully this will be enough details to get you going forward.
Edit:
Here's what you need to add to get it working:
use Illuminate\Cache\CacheManager as CacheManager;
$container = $capsule->getContainer();
$container->offsetGet('config')->offsetSet('cache.driver', 'array');
$cacheManager = new CacheManager($container);
$capsule->setCacheManager($cacheManager);
Obviously feel free to change the Cache Driver used but keep in mind that changing the Cache Driver will require adding the extra required settings.

Answer 3

Check out https://github.com/Luracast/Laravel-Database it provides full eloquent support outside laravel including artisan migrations and more
4.2 branch contains laravel 4.2.* components
5.2 branch contains laravel 5.2.* components
Disclosure: I'm the author of the above repository