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We're going to leave that to a little bit later on in the course But we want to do a huge amount of things when we order there are lots of different things that need to be covered We of course need to create an order record. We also need to attach the variations from the car We need to reduce stock and we need to clear the car

So we're going to do all of that stuff in the next few episodes So the first thing I want to do is just reduce what we've got in our cart to a sensible Quantity just so we've got something to work with and we can either be signed in or signed out for this It doesn't really matter. But the first job is to set up the order model and order migration to get this working

So let's go ahead and make a model in here called order and let's create a migration alongside of that So if we head over to the create orders table migration Let's think about all of the data that we're going to need Now the first thing is we're going to attach a uuid to this just so we have something that we can reference it by

That isn't the ID this is purely just to be able to pass in to Any endpoint that we create and that's pretty important because if the user isn't signed in we're going to redirect them over to an order Confirmation page not their orders page because of course they don't have an account later on once they do create an account

We're going to go ahead and hook up all of their orders to that user who has just signed up so what we also want to store in here is the account information of The user that has created the order if they're not authenticated So it will be this email here

And if you add any other fields to this you will probably want to fill them in as well Now if the user is authenticated, of course, we want to attach it to that user So we'll create a foreign ID in here We'll make this nullable because of course we're implementing guest checkout and we'll go ahead and constrain this as well

The next thing is going to be the shipping address and the shipping type. So two more foreign IDs in here so let's go ahead and create that out as Shipping Address ID remember we store that

When we go ahead and press order and also the shipping type ID as well So let's have the shipping type ID in here. And that's it. Okay. So the next thing is going to be the subtotal so let's go ahead and Include this as an integer

We could technically just grab this from the variations But if they change in the future Then of course it's going to be a little bit trickier to show the user the actual price that they paid now the next three columns are going to be something we're going to work on later and that will be a

Timestamp for placed at which technically we could take from the created at column Which is created with this timestamps method just here, but we're going to add these in just to demonstrate this out We're going to say packaged at and we're going to say Shipped at so what we're going to do later is when these statuses change

We're going to detect which sort of place were at in the order and then we're going to send the user An email update to tell them that the order status has changed So we'll get to that a little bit later, but we'll include all three of these in here now. Okay, so that's just about enough let's go ahead and run migrate and

Create that out and let's head straight over to the order model So we can figure out what the kind of default things we want to do to this model when it's created so let's create out a a

booted method in here and let's say that when this model is being created and Let's create our closure in here With the order we can type in that if we want to

We want to go ahead and fill in the UUID because this isn't generated automatically So let's go ahead and cast to a string the result of using the string helper UUID and That will create that in there for us before it's persisted in the database

And what we're also going to do is say order Placed at and we're going to set that to now So we're going to fill this in almost like it's a created at date, but of course, it's not really It's just an extra column that we've added now because we've done that and added them other

Columns in we need to specify these under timestamps. So placed at packaged at and shipped at So they will be converted to carbon objects when we pull them out. Let's also fill in our

Fields that we want to be fillable as well. Or of course we could set that to unguarded Let's fill these in manually So we've got the email address The subtotal which we want to fill and also placed at

Packaged at and shipped as well. We can always tweak this around later to clean it up Okay, so that should be enough for us to create an order now Fill in all the details we need and we're going to go over to the next episode to look at over on the checkout Actually creating the order down here when we hit checkout