Magento 2 Development Quick Start Guide

Creating a simple model

Unlike EAV models, creating simple models is pretty straightforward. Let's go ahead and create a model, resource model, and a collection for a Log entity.

We will start off by creating the <MAGELICIOUS_DIR>/Core/Model/Log.php file with the following content:

class Log extends \Magento\Framework\Model\AbstractModel {    protected $_eventPrefix = 'magelicious_core_log';    protected $_eventObject = 'log';    protected function _construct() {        $this->_init(\Magelicious\Core\Model\ResourceModel\Log::class);    }}

The use of $_eventPrefix and $_eventObject is not mandatory, but it is highly recommended. These values are used by the Magento\Framework\Model\AbstractModel event dispatcher and add to the future extensibility of our module. ...