You either need to serialize it or json encode it beforehand. Keep in mind, though, that you more or less lose the ability to search that data. Depending on your circumstances it might be better to add another table.

@marekmurawski @shabushabu : thanks

but i'm getting the return type as array but unable to parse it

array(1) { [0]=> object(stdClass)#170 (3) { ["year"]=> string(1) "9" ["dept"]=> string(2) "AZ" ["section"]=> string(1) "BC" } }

when I use $array_var[0]->year, I'm getting

Trying to get property of non-object (View: /app/views/staff/list.blade.php)

Instead of JSON, saved the array as serialized object

Then while displaying,

$std = unserialize($user->children);
echo $std[0]['year'];

This way, it worked.

thanks again :)

How I do it:

override the 2 accessor methods:

public function get<Column-Name>Attribute {
  return json_decode($this->attributes['Column-Name']);
}
public function set[Column-Name]Attribute(Array $val) {
  $this->attributes['Column-Name'] = json_encode($val);
}