Laravel format user's data sent to view

Question

I want to return my user's data with a specific field formatted differently.

Users have a field some_field which contains a string, let's say abcdef. I want to format it like so : ab cd ef - which I can do using wordwrap($user->some_field, 2, ' ', true);

So I'm doing:

public function dashboard(Request $request) {
    $request->user()->some_field = wordwrap($request->user()->some_field, 2, ' ', true);

    return view('dashboard', [
        'user' => $request->user(),
    ]);
}

Is it possible to apply this somehow for each and every time a user's data is returned, or do I have to make it happen in every controller returning user's data?

Answer 1

In your model you have to define accessor have a look here: Defining An Accessor

In your case it will look like this:

public function getSomeFieldAttribute($value)
    {
        return wordwrap($value, 2, ' ', true);
    }