Temporary property for Laravel Eloquent model

Question

I have a Laravel Eloquent model User, which has a table with username and email columns. I need to add a property for the model on runtime, something like $user->secure. This pr

Answer 1

Just add an attribute to your class.

class User extends Eloquent {
  public $secure;

  // ...
}

Note that it is better to declare it protected and add corresponding accessors and mutators (getSecure and setSecure methods) to your model.