Laravel 5.6, create on the fly property

Question

With:

Users::all();

I have all the users according to my db columns. In my case, I have

id|name|first_name

But I need to have the name and last_name in the same key.

Is there any option of Laravel 5.6 to create on the fly another column to that Users collection?

Something like:

Users::createColumn('fullname', ['name, 'last_name');

or something like that.

EDIT:

Right now I'm doing this:

$users = User::all();

$users->map(function ($fullname) {
    $fullname['fullname'] = $fullname->name . ' ' . $fullname->last_name;
        return $fullname;
    });

Answer 1

Laravel's Accessors & Mutators is what you're looking for.

In your User.php model:

/**
 * Get the user's full name.
 *
 * @return string
 */
public function getFullnameAttribute()
{
    return "{$this->name} {$this->last_name}";
}

Then, you access it like so:

$user->fullname