Laravel Set Default Value using Model

Nov 10, 2022
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Hello Artisan, today I'll show you how to set default for a column from your model. We often used to set default value from in our migration file but sometimes for our custom requirement or for any other purposes we need to modify, but at the end of an application cycle it's quite risky to modify/messy to customize a database column. And that's why we'll use our model classes to set the default value for a column. And it' going to be quite easy process rather than making a migration file and then perform a migrate command. So, no more talk, let's see how we can easily complete our todays' task.

Note: Tested on Laravel 9.19.

Create and Setup Controller
Create and Setup Route
Create and Setup View File
Setup Model
Output

Create and Setup Controller

In the very first step, we'll create a controller, and we'll write our necessary codes/logics.

Now fire the below command in terminal

php artisan make:controller UserController

It'll create a file under app\Http\Controllers called UserController.php. Open the file and replace with below codes.

app/Http/Controllers/UserController.php

<?php

namespace App\Http\Controllers;

use App\Models\User;

class UserController extends Controller
{
    public function index(): \Illuminate\Contracts\View\Factory|\Illuminate\Contracts\View\View|\Illuminate\Contracts\Foundation\Application
    {
        User::create([
            'name' => 'Tanvir',
            'email' => '[email protected]',
            'password' => bcrypt(12345678),
        ]);

        User::create([
            'email' => '[email protected]',
            'password' => bcrypt(12345678),
        ]);

        return view('index', [
            'users' => User::all(),
        ]);
    }
}

Create and Setup Route

Let's put the below route in web.php

routes/web.php

<?php

use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Route;

Route::resource('users', \App\Http\Controllers\UserController::class)->only([
    'index'
]);

Create and Setup View File

Now we we'll create a blade file where we can setup our view where we can see list of users. So, let's create a view file called index.blade.php under resources/views.

resources/views/index.blade.php

<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8">
    <meta name="viewport"
          content="width=device-width, user-scalable=no, initial-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=1.0, minimum-scale=1.0">
    <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="ie=edge">
    <title>Document</title>
    <!-- Latest compiled and minified CSS -->
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/[email protected]/dist/css/bootstrap.min.css">

    <!-- jQuery library -->
    <script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/[email protected]/dist/jquery.slim.min.js"></script>

    <!-- Popper JS -->
    <script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/[email protected]/dist/umd/popper.min.js"></script>

    <!-- Latest compiled JavaScript -->
    <script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/[email protected]/dist/js/bootstrap.bundle.min.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<div class="container">
    <div class="row justify-content-center mt-5">
        <div class="col-md-12">
            <h4 class="text-center">Set Default Value in a Column By Model</h4>
            <table class="table mt-5">
                <thead>
                <tr>
                    <th scope="col">#</th>
                    <th scope="col">Name</th>
                    <th scope="col">Email</th>
                    <th scope="col">Created At</th>
                </tr>
                </thead>
                <tbody>
                @foreach($users as $key=> $user)
                    <tr>
                        <th scope="row">{{ $key+1 }}</th>
                        <td>{{ $user->name }}</td>
                        <td>{{ $user->email }}</td>
                        <td>{{ $user->created_at }}</td>
                    </tr>
                @endforeach
                </tbody>
            </table>
        </div>
    </div>
</div>
</body>
</html>

Setup Model

Open User.php and replace with below codes.

app/Models/User.php

<?php

namespace App\Models;

// use Illuminate\Contracts\Auth\MustVerifyEmail;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Factories\HasFactory;
use Illuminate\Foundation\Auth\User as Authenticatable;
use Illuminate\Notifications\Notifiable;
use Laravel\Sanctum\HasApiTokens;

class User extends Authenticatable
{
    use HasApiTokens, HasFactory, Notifiable;

    protected $fillable = [
        'name',
        'email',
        'password',
    ];

    protected $hidden = [
        'password',
        'remember_token',
    ];

    protected $casts = [
        'email_verified_at' => 'datetime',
    ];

    protected $attributes = [
        'name' => 'Default Name',
    ];
}

Here we use $attributes property for set the default value for a specific column.

Output

And finally, we're ready with our setup. It's time to check our output. Now go to http://localhost:8000/users, If everything goes well (hope so) you can find a below output.

That's it for today. Hope you've enjoyed this tutorial. Catch me in the comment section if anything goes wrong. You can also download this tutorial from GitHub. Thanks for reading.

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