Add column aliasing option in Eloquent Model

[treythomas123]

This allows developers to use Eloquent model attribute names that differ from the actual names of the columns. This is accomplished by adding an $aliases field to the Model (similar to $appends, visible, hidden, etc.)

For example, if you're dealing with a legacy database you can't change, you can remap some ugly field names to friendlier ones:

protected $aliases = [
    'FIELD_03' => 'email',
    'FIELD_12' => 'name'
];

This allows you to access the fields by the alias name:

User::find($id)->email; // returns the value in database column FIELD_03

It works with query builder too, so this:

User::where('FIELD_12', 'like', 'jobs')
  ->orWhere('FIELD_03','[email protected]')

Becomes:

User::where('name', 'like', 'jobs')
  ->orWhere('email','[email protected]')

[RomainLanz]

Nice one! 👍

If it's not accepted in the core, you can send a PR on the Eloquence package made by @jarektkaczyk.

[jarektkaczyk]

@RomainLanz Thanks for mentioning. I added the feature already to the Eloquence package with additional functionality - mapping relations and querying relations, not only aliased local columns.

@treythomas123 Good job

[taylorotwell]

Since this exists in a package, going to leave it there.