Using Eloquent Outside of Laravel for Other PHP Apps. Source: https://www.cloudways.com/blog/eloquent-illuminate-in-php-without-laravel/

bootstrap.php

<?php



require "vendor/autoload.php";

use Illuminate\Database\Capsule\Manager as Capsule;



$capsule = new Capsule;



$capsule->addConnection([

   "driver" => "mysql",

   "host" =>"127.0.0.1",

   "database" => "acl",

   "username" => "root",

   "password" => ""

]);

$capsule->setAsGlobal();

$capsule->bootEloquent();