For months, I've been placing all my logic in my controllers. Today, I would like to steer clear of this route and creating models for my logic and simply call them in my controllers. Let's think of it this way, I have a control panel to edit game records in a database. In my controllers, I just continuously build up queries and add, remove, update, and delete records that way.

What I would like to do is something like this:

Game::id('game-name')->update('description', 'new description');
Game::id('game-name')->remove('description');
Game::id('game-name')->description // returns description

I find this far more efficient.

This is models/Game.php

<?php 

class Game{

	protected $properties = [];
	protected $statistics = [];
	private $game;

	public function __construct() {

		$query = DB::connection('website')->table('gametypes')
										  ->where('name', $this->game)
										  ->get();

		if($query) {

			// Let's assign some properties to this game..

			$this->properties['name'] = $query->name;

		}

	}

	public function id($game) {

		$this->game = $game;

		return $this;

	}

	public function name() {

		$this->properties['name'];

		return $this;

	}

}

What I am trying to do here is:

Game::id('game-name')->name() // return name

If it's far more complicated than this, please don't simply reply with links. I do need an explanation. Thanks!