With Laravel, create a custom attribute in the User Model to get the users full name and explain it to me

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With Laravel, create a custom attribute in the User Model to get the users full name and explain it to me. Format output with Markdown including format code with Markdown triple backticks.

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Adding a custom extended attribute “full name” to the User model is quite simple.

First, we create a getFullNameAttribute() method on the User model that'll return the users first name and last name, separated with a space. The attribute name must start with get and end with Attribute and the name between them will become the attribute name we can access in our application.

public function getFullNameAttribute()
{
    return $this->first_name . ' ' . $this->last_name;
}

Now, we can access that attribute using the $user model directly.

echo $user->full_name

Alternatively, we could access it via Eloquent's $appends variable to make sure this attribute is always included in Eloquent models' toArray() and toJson() outputs.

protected $appends = ['full_name'];