Casey Dwyer

CT Pastors George Herbert, a poet-priest in seventeenth-century England, walked two miles every evening to the large cathedral in Salisbury. As a rural pastor serving in the small hamlet of Bemerton, this nightly ritual had a specific purpose: to join the cathedral’s evensong service and make music in its high-vaulted sanctuary. One day, Herbert arrived at the cathedral covered head-to-toe in mud.

A new addition to Laravel 5.5 will add support for pivot table casts when inserting & updating data on an intermediate table model. Currently, the $casts you set on a traditional model will work in both directions; any model that extends the Eloquent\Model class will look for a $casts property and convert the specified attributes to a data type when reading and writing.