Laravel/Eloquent - Eager loaded hidden/visible properties

Question

When using Laravel\'s Eloquent ORM, I can\'t seem to set the $hidden and $visible properties on my Model dynamically.

Example 1: This works:

Answer 1

As $visible is set on an instance level (i.e. it's not a static variable shared between all models of the same type), no - there's no better way to do this.