Laravel Eloquent - Ignore mutators in some case situation (https://stackoverflow.com/a/43849449/4705820)

MyController.php

<?php

// ...

public function update(MyModel $m, $id) {
  $m->$preventAttrSet = true; // this doesn't work, it will reset to false again
  $data = $m->with('relation')->findOrFail($id)->ignoreMutators(); // this work and will ignore the mutators
  
  return view('some.view', $data);
}

// ...

MyModel.php

<?php

namespace App\Models;

use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Factories\HasFactory;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;

class MyModel extends Model
{
	use HasFactory;
  
  // other properties
  
  public $preventAttrSet = false;

  public function setFirstNameAttribute($value) {
      if ($this->preventAttrSet) {
          // Ignore Mutator
          $this->attributes['first_name'] = $value;
      } else {
          $this->attributes['first_name'] = strtolower($value);
      }
  }
  
  public function ignoreMutators(bool $ignore = true) {
    $this->preventAtrrSet = $ignore;
  }
}