Tag "eloquent" tricks

maybe this is a nice way to prevent an eloquent model field being updated with mutators like this:

If you want to count the number of results from a relationship without actually loading them you may use the "withCount" method, which will place a "{relation}_count" column on your resulting models.

Sometimes you may wish to eager load a relationship, but also specify additional query constraints for the eager loading query. Here's an example:

You might come up with a situation where you want to check if a given Eloquent attribute was changed compared with its original stored value.

with this trait you can get Enum values of a table /

If you ever wanted to see the SQL query that is being generated when using the Eloquent or the Query Buider, you can simply use to `toSql` method.