Define custom attributes in Eloquent

Question

I have 3 different fields in the database: city, state, country. How do I define another attribute in Eloquent to return one string from those 3 fields?

First approach, but it doesn't work:

protected $address = "";

public function getAddress() : string {
  return $this->city . $this->state . " - " . $this->country;
}

Sovon · Accepted Answer · 2016-10-06 14:48:04Z

10

If you want a new attribute which is not defined in model, you need to append that attribute to your model.

/**
 * The accessors to append to the model's array form.
 *
 * @var array
 */
protected $appends = ['address'];

And define your attribute method:

/**
 * Get the address.
 *
 * @return string
 */
public function getAddressAttribute()
{
    return $this->city . $this->state . " - " . $this->country;
}

answered Oct 6, 2016 at 14:48

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Alexey Mezenin · Accepted Answer · 2016-10-06 14:41:28Z

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Add Attribute to the method name to make it work:

public function getAddressAttribute()
{
    return $this->city.$this->state.' - '.$this->country;
}

https://laravel.com/docs/5.3/eloquent-mutators#defining-an-accessor

answered Oct 6, 2016 at 14:41

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ln9187 Over a year ago

That's for attributes already mapped to the database table, though. It returns nothing when I call $this->address

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