laravel cast to array code example

Example 1: php convert object to array

$person = new stdClass();
$person->firstName = "Taylor";
$person->age = 32;

//Convert Single-Dimention Object to array
$personArray = (array) $person;

//Convert Multi-Dimentional Object to Array
$personArray = objectToArray($person);
function objectToArray ($object) {
    if(!is_object($object) && !is_array($object)){
    	return $object;
    }
    return array_map('objectToArray', (array) $object);
}

Example 2: string to array in laravel

$explode_id = json_decode($request->data, true);

Example 3: $this- attribute laravel

To define a mutator, define a setFooAttribute method on your model where Foo
  is the "studly" cased name of the column you wish to access. So, again,
lets define a mutator for the first_name attribute. This mutator will
be automatically called when we attempt to set the value of the first_name
attribute on the model:

class User extends Model
{
    public function setFirstNameAttribute($value)
    {
        $this->attributes['first_name'] = strtolower($value);
    }
}

Example 4: laravel eloquent json type

<?php
//Array & JSON Casting
namespace App;

use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;

class User extends Model
{
    /**
     * The attributes that should be cast.
     *
     * @var array
     */
    protected $casts = [
        'options' => 'array',
    ];
}
namespace App;

use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;

class User extends Model
{
    /**
     * The attributes that should be cast.
     *
     * @var array
     */
    protected $casts = [
        'options' => 'array',
    ];
}