Laravel/Eloquent: Fatal error: Call to a member function connection() on a non-object

Question

I\'m building a package in Laravel 4 but am getting a non-object error when attempting to access the db from which seems to be a properly instantiated object. Here\'s the setup:

Answer 1

Try including the DB facade as well as Eloquent...

use Illuminate\Support\Facades\DB;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model as Eloquent;

...and then see if you have access to DB::table('chat_history').

(Also note that in your class, your call to use Illuminate\Database\Model; should be Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model; )