get Original Attribute for Eloquent Model Laravel 5.1

Question

I have Foo Attribute that use getFooAttribute method to format it before display but in some places, I need original attribute for it. So how can I do it?

Answer 1

Getting the original value of a particular attribute from v4.2 onwards:

$originalFoo = $model->getOriginal('foo');

Answer 2

If you want to use mutator in the majority of the code but sometimes would like to access the original value, you can do it by fetching all attributes using getAttributes() method of your model and then fetching the value from there, e.g.:

$originalFoo = $model->getAttributes()['foo'];

Answer 3

If you want the raw field straight out of database skipping the mutator then

$mode->getRawOriginal('attribute')

is the way to go. $model->getOriginal() will give you the mutator value not the raw data you want.

see https://laravel.com/api/7.x/Illuminate/Database/Eloquent/Concerns/HasAttributes.html#method_getRawOriginal

Answer 4

I am using 5.3 and for this I use $model->getOriginal()['foo']