Work with laravel tinker
Use terminal to go to your project, and type :
php artisan tinker
Then type the following command for example to create a new Article
:
$article = new Article;
After that you can manipulate the article like any Article
object :
$article->title = "foo";
Maybe you should take a look at Laravel Fundamentals at laracasts.com, it's a greate serie for Laravel beginners.
Regards.