@@ -194,6 +194,24 @@ type, to the Laravel ``datetime`` type.
194194 :emphasize-lines: 9-11
195195 :dedent:
196196
197+ .. tip:: Casts in Laravel 11
198+ 199+ In Laravel 11, you can define a ``casts()`` method to specify data type conversions
200+ instead of using the ``$casts`` attribute. The following code performs the same
201+ conversion as the preceding example by using a ``casts()`` method:
202+ 203+ .. code-block:: php
204+ 205+ protected function casts(): array
206+ {
207+ return [
208+ 'discovery_dt' => 'datetime',
209+ ];
210+ }
211+ 212+ To learn more, see `Attribute Casting <https://laravel.com/docs/{+laravel-docs-version+}/eloquent-mutators#attribute-casting>`__
213+ in the Laravel documentation.
214+ 197215This conversion lets you use the PHP `DateTime <https://www.php.net/manual/en/class.datetime.php>`__
198216or the `Carbon class <https://carbon.nesbot.com/docs/>`__ to work with dates
199217in this field. The following example shows a Laravel query that uses the
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