Where to put/how to handle enums in Laravel?

Answer 1

Just had similar issue, for me Eloquent Accessors and mutators worked the best. For this question it would go like:

namespace App;

use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;

class Customer extends Model
{
    /**
    * @var array
    */
    protected $phoneTypes = [
        'Cellular',
        'Home',
        'Work'
    ];

   /**
    * @param int $value
    * @return string|null
    */
    public function getPhoneTypeAttribute($value)
    {
        return Arr::get($this->phoneTypes, $value);
    }
}

Please note that in database you should save numeric values, where 0 is cell, 1 is home and 2 is work. Secondly it would be wise to use translations here instead protected property.