In our previous post, we learnt what are accessors and mutators, how can they be helpful and how to write them in our Models. Let's now understand how to check if an accessor or mutator exists for an attribute.

Taking an example from previous post, we have an accessor on FirstName attribute of our Employee model. In order to check if an accessor exists, we need to use hasGetMutator method as follows:

$employee = Employee::find(1);
echo $employee->hasGetMutator('first_name'); // Returns boolean based on existence of an accessor

Similarly, we can check whether a mutator hasSetMutator exists for an attribute as follows:

$employee = Employee::find(1);
echo $employee->hasSetMutator('first_name'); // Returns boolean based on existence of a mutator

Hope this helped you. Happy Coding! :)