title: When going through Laracast Tutorials, the output I get doesn't match what they get. What am I doing wrong?
body: <p>I'm going through laracasts tutorials but my tinker does not look anything like laracasts and won't do what I'm trying to get it to do</p>
  
  <pre><code>    Psy Shell v0.5.1 (PHP 5.5.12 ÔÇö cli) by Justin Hileman
  &gt;&gt;&gt; $article = App\Article::create{['title' =&gt; 'New Article', 'body' =&gt; 'New body', 'published_at' =&gt; Carbon\Carbon::now()]);
  PHP Parse error: Syntax error, unexpected '{' on line 1
  &gt;&gt;&gt; $article = App\Article::create{['title' =&gt; 'New Article', 'body' =&gt; 'New body', 'published_at' =&gt; Carbon\Carbon::now()]);
  PHP Parse error: Syntax error, unexpected '{' on line 1
  &gt;&gt;&gt; $name
  PHP error:  Undefined variable: name on line 1
  &gt;&gt;&gt; $article = new App\Article;
  =&gt; App\Article {#655}
  &gt;&gt;&gt; $article
  =&gt; App\Article {#655}
  &gt;&gt;&gt; new App\User;
  =&gt; App\User {#648}
  &gt;&gt;&gt; $article = new App\Article;
  =&gt; App\Article {#651}
  &gt;&gt;&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>This is what it's displaying does anyone know what could be wrong?</p>
  
  <p>edit: new error that won't let me continue</p>
  
  <pre><code>    $article-&gt;save();
      Illuminate\Database\QueryException with message 'SQLSTATE[HY000]: General error: 1 no such table: articles (SQL: insert into "articles" ("body", "published_at", "title", "updated_at", "created_at") v
      alues (Lorem ipsum, 2015-07-22 15:20:49, My First Article, 2015-07-22 15:27:15, 2015-07-22 15:27:15))'
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>edit2: Tried that article find line and it showed this</p>
  
  <pre><code>    Psy Shell v0.5.1 (PHP 5.5.12 ÔÇö cli) by Justin Hileman
  &gt;&gt;&gt; $article = new App\Article;
  =&gt; App\Article {#652}
  &gt;&gt;&gt; $article - App\Article::find(1);
  Illuminate\Database\QueryException with message 'SQLSTATE[HY000]: General error: 1 no such table: articles (SQL: select * from "articles" where "articles"."id" = 1 limit 1)'
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The contents of my <code>config/database.php</code> file are:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;?php
  
  return [
  
  /*
  |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
  | PDO Fetch Style
  |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
  |
  | By default, database results will be returned as instances of the PHP
  | stdClass object; however, you may desire to retrieve records in an
  | array format for simplicity. Here you can tweak the fetch style.
  |
  */
  
  'fetch' =&gt; PDO::FETCH_CLASS,
  
  /*
  |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
  | Default Database Connection Name
  |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
  |
  | Here you may specify which of the database connections below you wish
  | to use as your default connection for all database work. Of course
  | you may use many connections at once using the Database library.
  |
  */
  
  'default' =&gt; 'sqlite',
  
  /*
  |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
  | Database Connections
  |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
  |
  | Here are each of the database connections setup for your application.
  | Of course, examples of configuring each database platform that is
  | supported by Laravel is shown below to make development simple.
  |
  |
  | All database work in Laravel is done through the PHP PDO facilities
  | so make sure you have the driver for your particular database of
  | choice installed on your machine before you begin development.
  |
  */
  
  'connections' =&gt; [
  
      'sqlite' =&gt; [
          'driver'   =&gt; 'sqlite',
          'database' =&gt; storage_path().'database.sqlite',
          'prefix'   =&gt; '',
      ],
  
      'mysql' =&gt; [
          'driver'    =&gt; 'mysql',
          'host'      =&gt; env('DB_HOST', 'localhost'),
          'database'  =&gt; env('DB_DATABASE', 'forge'),
          'username'  =&gt; env('DB_USERNAME', 'forge'),
          'password'  =&gt; env('DB_PASSWORD', ''),
          'charset'   =&gt; 'utf8',
          'collation' =&gt; 'utf8_unicode_ci',
          'prefix'    =&gt; '',
          'strict'    =&gt; false,
      ],
  
      'pgsql' =&gt; [
          'driver'   =&gt; 'pgsql',
          'host'     =&gt; env('DB_HOST', 'localhost'),
          'database' =&gt; env('DB_DATABASE', 'forge'),
          'username' =&gt; env('DB_USERNAME', 'forge'),
          'password' =&gt; env('DB_PASSWORD', ''),
          'charset'  =&gt; 'utf8',
          'prefix'   =&gt; '',
          'schema'   =&gt; 'public',
      ],
  
      'sqlsrv' =&gt; [
          'driver'   =&gt; 'sqlsrv',
          'host'     =&gt; env('DB_HOST', 'localhost'),
          'database' =&gt; env('DB_DATABASE', 'forge'),
          'username' =&gt; env('DB_USERNAME', 'forge'),
          'password' =&gt; env('DB_PASSWORD', ''),
          'charset'  =&gt; 'utf8',
          'prefix'   =&gt; '',
      ],
  
  ],
  
  /*
  |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
  | Migration Repository Table
  |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
  |
  | This table keeps track of all the migrations that have already run for
  | your application. Using this information, we can determine which of
  | the migrations on disk haven't actually been run in the database.
  |
  */
  
  'migrations' =&gt; 'migrations',
  
  /*
  |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
  | Redis Databases
  |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
  |
  | Redis is an open source, fast, and advanced key-value store that also
  | provides a richer set of commands than a typical key-value systems
  | such as APC or Memcached. Laravel makes it easy to dig right in.
  |
  */
  
  'redis' =&gt; [
  
      'cluster' =&gt; false,
  
      'default' =&gt; [
          'host'     =&gt; '127.0.0.1',
          'port'     =&gt; 6379,
          'database' =&gt; 0,
      ],
  
  ],
  
  ];
  </code></pre>