Bulmer said:

Thanks shabushabu , but from the docs the getDiscountedPriceAttribute($val) method would need a 'discounted_price' column in the database to work wouldn't it? I am using the following Accessor to display the discounted price instead of the normal price:

public function getPriceAttribute($value) { if (count ( $this->specials ) > 0) {//any specials that this model is related to?? foreach ( $this->specials as $s ) {//for all specials related to this object if ($this->onSpecialNow ()) {//if its current.... return $value * $s->discount; // ....return the discounted price } else { return $value; // Otherwise return the normal price } } } else { return $value;//carry on as normal } }

This works fine for displaying, but when I want to edit a model in my admin it also displays the discounted value and, as such, gets saved as this manipulated discount price. I have managed to reverse the original process with a Mutator on the same Model, but is there a better way?

You can create an accessor without the same field in the database. What you could do is this:

public function getDiscountedPriceAttribute()
{
    $originalPrice = $this->price; // or $this->attributes['price']

    // perform discount logic here

    return $discountedPrice;
}

I often prefer to create my Accessors in this way so that I can always have access to the raw values coming out of the database.