Laravel eloquent add to JSON - mysql

Question

To begin with, sorry for my bad English. I have column:
$table->json('images')->nullable();
Table is called albums. In images I would like to store an array with image names, but how can I every time add to that json? My code right now:
$album = Album::where('hash', $request->album_hash)->firstOrFail();
$album->update([
'images' => $request->image->name <= tried to do something.. My uploader everytime calls this function, so I need to get current IMAGES column value, and add new. Like ['first image name', 'second image name'], after update this must be ['first image name', 'second image name', 'third image name'] not just ['third image name']
]);
$album->save();
I need to do like laravel increment function, but which works only with int looks like. How can I do that? Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

I think its not possible to directly change the JSON as your images data would return as a String.
First get the JSON as a string, then update the Object and update the JSON.
So something like:
$album = Album::where('hash', $request->album_hash)->firstOrFail();
$images = json_decode($album->images);
array_push($images, $request->image->name);
$album->update(['images' => $images]);
$album->save();
Note: I didn't check this code, but this should give you an idea of how to handle this
Good luck

Answer 2

$album = Album::where('hash', $request->album_hash)->firstOrFail();
$arra = json_decode($album->images);
$arra[] = $request->image->name;
$album->update([
'images' => $arra
]);
$album->save();
I hope help you