The simplest thing to do is, change the default table name assigned for the model. Simply put following code,
protected $table = 'category_posts'; instead of protected $table = 'posts'; then it'll do the trick.
However, if you refer Laravel documentation you'll find the answer. Here what it says,
By convention, the "snake case", plural name of the class(model) will be used as the table name unless another name is explicitly specified
Better to you use artisan command to make model and the migration file at the same time, use the following command,
php artisan make:model Test --migration
This will create a model class and a migration class in your Laravel project. Let's say it created following files,
Test.php
2018_06_22_142912_create_tests_table.php
If you look at the code in those two files you'll see,
2018_06_22_142912_create_tests_table.php files' up function,
public function up()
{
Schema::create('tests', function (Blueprint $table) {
$table->increments('id');
$table->timestamps();
});
}
Here it automatically generated code with the table name of 'tests' which is the plural name of that class which is in Test.php file.