Create model custom attributes in documentation?

[milenmk]

Hi all.

Correct me if I am wrong, but nowhere in the documentation is it explained how to cast/create a custom attribute for your model, that is not part of the fillable properties. What I mean is, let's have a user model with 2 fields: name and last_name.

Now, anywhere on your code, you can do like $user->name .' '. $user->last_name. However, you can also do this:

// In the User model

    public function getFullNameAttribute(): string
    {
        return $this->name). ' '. $this->last_name;
    }

and then just use $user->full_name.

may be it should be added somewhere in the documentation, as this is very usefull.

[bulletproof-coding]

They moved away from this type of mutators in Laravel 9. https://laravel.com/docs/11.x/eloquent-mutators#defining-a-mutator vs https://laravel.com/docs/8.x/eloquent-mutators#defining-a-mutator

[milenmk]

Do you mean I should move to this new way, as the one I am using may become unusable in future versions?

[bulletproof-coding]

I didn't move away from it. They stated it is still usable in the old way.

[bulletproof-coding]

But this second way of doing it, restricts the user from defining a relation with the same name as the mutator.

[bulletproof-coding]

see this #54114
Old way is the best way.