Laravel Attributes

In Laravel Eloquent models, you can define an accessor method to return a fallback value when an attribute is empty or false. To do this, you need to define a method with a specific naming convention in your model. The method should be named `getProfileImageAttribute` if you want to define an accessor for the `profile_image` attribute. This method takes one argument, `$value`, which is the value of the attribute. If the value is not empty, the method returns the asset URL based on the value; otherwise, it returns a fallback URL. With this accessor defined, you can access the `profile_image` attribute of a User model instance and it will go through this accessor method. In your Blade template, you can then directly use `auth()->user()->profile_image` without any additional logic. The naming convention for attribute accessors in Laravel consists of three parts: `get`, `AttributeName`, and `Attribute`. This convention is used to automatically map attribute accessors to the corresponding attributes in the Eloquent model. When you retrieve the value of an attribute, Laravel internally looks for an accessor method with the corresponding name to provide the value of the attribute.