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

For those who still find this post (like I did), you may need to explicitly declare the property as null to prevent it from being automatically added to the attributes array, and thus being added to INSERT/UPDATE queries:

class User extends Eloquent {
    public $secure = null;

    // ...
}

Source: http://laravel.io/forum/02-10-2014-setting-transient-properties-on-eloquent-models-without-saving-to-database