Use laravel-postgis properly

app/Http/Controllers/NotesController.php

@@ -41,8 +41,7 @@ class NotesController extends Controller
                 }
             }
             if ($note->place !== null) {
-                preg_match('/\((.*)\)/', $note->place->location, $matches);
-                $lnglat = explode(' ', $matches[1]);
+                $lnglat = explode(' ', $note->place->location);
                 $note->latitude = $lnglat[1];
                 $note->longitude = $lnglat[0];
                 $note->address = $note->place->name;
@@ -110,8 +109,7 @@ class NotesController extends Controller
             }
         }
         if ($note->place !== null) {
-            preg_match('/\((.*)\)/', $note->place->location, $matches);
-            $lnglat = explode(' ', $matches[1]);
+            $lnglat = explode(' ', $note->place->location);
             $note->latitude = $lnglat[1];
             $note->longitude = $lnglat[0];
             $note->address = $note->place->name;

app/Place.php

@@ -32,7 +32,10 @@ class Place extends Model
      *
      * @var array
      */
-    protected $postgisFields = [Point::class, Polygon::class];
+    protected $postgisFields = [
+        'location' => Point::class,
+        'polygon' => Polygon::class,
+    ];
 
     /**
      * Define the relationship with Notes.
@@ -74,18 +77,18 @@ class Place extends Model
         return $places;
     }
 
-    /**
+    /*
      * Convert location to text.
      *
      * @param  text $value
      * @return text
-     */
+     *
     public function getLocationAttribute($value)
     {
         $result = DB::select(DB::raw("SELECT ST_AsText('$value')"));
 
         return $result[0]->st_astext;
-    }
+    }*/
 
     /**
      * Get the latitude from the `location` property.
@@ -94,9 +97,7 @@ class Place extends Model
      */
     public function getLatitudeAttribute()
     {
-        preg_match('/\((.*)\)/', $this->location, $latlng);
-
-        return explode(' ', $latlng[1])[1];
+        return explode(' ', $this->location)[1];
     }
 
     /**
@@ -106,9 +107,7 @@ class Place extends Model
      */
     public function getLongitudeAttribute()
     {
-        preg_match('/\((.*)\)/', $this->location, $latlng);
-
-        return explode(' ', $latlng[1])[0];
+        return explode(' ', $this->location)[0];
     }
 
     /**

changelog.md

@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 # Changelog
 
+## Version {next}
+  - Better use of `laravel-postgis`
+
 ## Version 0.0.5 (2016-06-23)
   - Automatically send webmentions
   - Change `mp-syndicate-to` to `syndicate-to`