title: Laravel : BadMethodCallException Method [find] does not exist
body: <p>when trying to extract some values from the database using the model object User I get the following error : <code>BadMethodCallException Method [find] does not exist</code></p>
  
  <p>Here are my files : 
  Model User</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;?php
  
  use Illuminate\Auth\UserInterface;
  use Illuminate\Auth\Reminders\RemindableInterface;
  
  class User extends Eloquent implements UserInterface, RemindableInterface {
  
      /**
       * The database table used by the model.
       *
       * @var string
       */
      protected $table = 'users';
  
      /**
       * The attributes excluded from the model's JSON form.
       *
       * @var array
       */
      protected $hidden = array('password');
  
          public function projects()
          {
              return $this-&gt;belongsToMany('Project');
          }
  
          public function trys()
          {
              return $this-&gt;hasMany('Try');
          }
  
      /**
       * Get the unique identifier for the user.
       *
       * @return mixed
       */
      public function getAuthIdentifier()
      {
          return $this-&gt;getKey();
      }
  
      /**
       * Get the password for the user.
       *
       * @return string
       */
      public function getAuthPassword()
      {
          return $this-&gt;password;
      }
  
      /**
       * Get the e-mail address where password reminders are sent.
       *
       * @return string
       */
      public function getReminderEmail()
      {
          return $this-&gt;email;
      }
  
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Controller user : </p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;?php
  
  class user extends BaseController {
  
  
      public function showWelcome($id)
      {
          $user1 = User::find($id);
          return View::make('users.index', array('user' =&gt; $user1)); //
      }
  
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>View users/index.php</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;!doctype html&gt;
  &lt;html lang="en"&gt;
  &lt;head&gt;
      &lt;meta charset="UTF-8"&gt;
      &lt;title&gt;first page&lt;/title&gt;
  
  &lt;/head&gt;
  &lt;body&gt;
      &lt;?php echo 'Hello'; ?&gt;
  &lt;/body&gt;
  &lt;/html&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>and the routes.php :</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;?php
  Route::get('user/{id}', 'user@showWelcome');
  Route::get('/', function()
  {
      return View::make('hello');
  });
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Thanks for the help</p>