Is it possible to create aliases for the column names of a table in Laravel's Model? Example: I have a questao table with columns:
id
questao
disciplinas_id
serie_id
professor_id
It would be simpler if I could treat the columns by other names within the application. Call professor_id of prof , for example. I gave one searched but found nothing that would help me. Anyone know if Eloquent allows this? If so, how?
Easier than this, you can, at your Model , use accessor and mutator for set the shortcut. See the example:
<?php
namespace App;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
class Questao extends Model
{
public function getProfAttribute()
{
return $this->attributes['professor_id'];
}
}
In this case, when accessing the value of $questao->prof , the getProfAttribute method is called by returning the value of the professor_id attribute. Now, to update the value through the shortcut, you need to set the mutator :
<?php
namespace App;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
class Questao extends Model
{
public function setProfAttribute($value)
{
$this->attributes['professor_id'] = $value;
}
}
What allows you to do something like $questao->prof = 3 .