@ryangurnick

Yes, Eloquent does support the null safe operator in Laravel 8 and above. The null safe operator ?-> allows you to safely access properties and methods of an object without having to worry about whether the object is null or not. This feature was added in PHP 8.0 and Laravel 8 has implemented it for Eloquent models as well.

For example, suppose you have a User model with a related Phone model, and you want to get the user's phone number if it exists:

$user = User::find(1);
$phone = $user?->phone?->number;

In this code, the null safe operator is used twice - first to check if the $user variable is null, and second to check if the $user->phone relationship is null. If either of these is null, the expression will simply return null instead of throwing an error.

The Nullsafe Operator