Laravel Models - add non-database field

Question

I have a model in Laravel called Checkout. It is just tied to a table in the database called checkouts.

namespace App;

use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;

class Checkout extends Model
{
    protected $primaryKey = 'id';
    protected $table = 'checkouts';
}

What I would like to do is add a field to the model that isn't a field in the table. Is this even possible?

If need be, I will completely manually build the model, but I have never seen any examples of that either.

Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks,

Amit Gupta · Accepted Answer · 2016-11-05 05:29:37Z

6

You can use Laravel's Accessor as:

public function getSomeExtraFieldAttribute()
{
    return 2*4; // just for exmaple
}

Then you can access it using

$checkout = App\Checkout::find(1);

$checkout->some_extra_field;

answered Nov 5, 2016 at 5:29

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3 Comments

user2869411 Over a year ago

I am looking at the documentation... the way I understand it, if I create a function in the model called getSomeFieldAttribute, I can call that in the application as some_field (as if it were a field from the database connected to that model)... am I understanding this correctly?

Amit Gupta Over a year ago

Yes, you got it r8 and also you can use any attribute of the model inside the getSomeFieldAttribute() function, using $this as $this->id

user2869411 Over a year ago

Laravel just keeps getting better. Thanks for your help.

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