🐥 Encrypting data in the database using Eloquent

database laravel php

If you want to put "sensitive" data in our database then you can use Crypt Facade and handle these using accessors and mutators.

namespace App\Models;

use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Casts\Attribute;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Crypt;

class CloudProvider extends Model
{
    protected function apiToken(): Attribute
    {
        return Attribute::make(
            set: fn ($value) => Crypt::encryptString($value),
            get: fn ($value) => Crypt::decryptString($value),
        );
    }
}

Thanks to @thkafadaris for the idea.

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