Is there a way to see the old/previous value of a model’s attribute in its saving
or updating
event?
eg. Is something like the following possible:
User::updating(function($user) { if ($user->username != $user->old->username) doSomething(); });
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Answer
Ok, I found this quite by chance, as it’s not in the documentation at present…
There is a getOriginal()
method available which returns an array of the original attribute values:
User::updating(function($user) { if ($user->username != $user->getOriginal('username')) { doSomething(); } // If you need multiple attributes you may use: // $originalAttributes = $user->getOriginal(); // $originalUsername = $originalAttributes['username']; });
Be careful, prior to Laravel 7
getOriginal
ignores attribute type casting.