How to always append attributes to Laravel Eloquent model?

Question

I was wondering how to always append some data to Eloquent model without the need of asking for it for example when getting Posts form database I want to append the user info for each user as:

{     id: 1     title: "My Post Title"     body: "Some text"     created_at: "2-28-2016"     user:{             id: 1,             name: "john smith",             email: "[email protected]"          } } 

Answer 1

After some search I found that you simply need to add the attribute you wants to the $appends array in your Eloquent Model:

 protected $appends = ['user']; 

Update: If the attribute exists in the database you can just use protected $with= ['user']; according to David Barker's comment below

Then create an Accessor as:

public function getUserAttribute() {      return $this->user();  } 

This way you always will have the user object for each post available as:

{     id: 1     title: "My Post Title"     body: "Some text"     created_at: "2-28-2016"     user:{             id: 1,             name: "john smith",             email: "[email protected]"          } }