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 Version   v6

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- [ Introduction ](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-translatable/v6/introduction)
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Basic usage
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- [ Getting and setting translations ](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-translatable/v6/basic-usage/getting-and-settings-translations)
- [ Removing translations ](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-translatable/v6/basic-usage/removing-translations)
- [ Replacing translations ](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-translatable/v6/basic-usage/replacing-translations)
- [ Querying translations ](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-translatable/v6/basic-usage/querying-translations)
- [ Validation translations ](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-translatable/v6/basic-usage/validating-translations)
- [ Handling missing translations ](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-translatable/v6/basic-usage/handling-missing-translations)

Advanced usage
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- [ Available events ](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-translatable/v6/advanced-usage/available-events)
- [ Customize the toArray method ](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-translatable/v6/advanced-usage/customize-the-toarray-method)
- [ Usage with factories ](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-translatable/v6/advanced-usage/usage-with-factories)

 Customize the toArray method
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In many cases, the `toArray()` method on `Model` the class is called under the hood to serialize your model.

To customize for all your models what should get returned for the translatable attributes you could wrap the`Spatie\Translatable\HasTranslations` trait into a custom trait and overrides the `toArray()` method.

```
namespace App\Traits;
use Spatie\Translatable\HasTranslations as BaseHasTranslations;

trait HasTranslations
{
    use BaseHasTranslations;

    public function toArray()
    {
        $attributes = $this->attributesToArray(); // attributes selected by the query
        // remove attributes if they are not selected
        $translatables = array_filter($this->getTranslatableAttributes(), function ($key) use ($attributes) {
            return array_key_exists($key, $attributes);
        });
        foreach ($translatables as $field) {
            $attributes[$field] = $this->getTranslation($field, \App::getLocale());
        }
        return array_merge($attributes, $this->relationsToArray());
    }
}
```