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so we had an enum inside of our app which we could also use for things like validation so when we went ahead and stored a order we validated this against the order statuses that we had predefined in this backed enum it's a backed enum because each of these cases has values what we did then over on the form itself both on create and edit is used our enum values to iterate

through and build up the ui we did this in two places which means that our enum is a really good candidate already because it means that the more options that we add to this enum that's shown in the ui everywhere and it's also shown or validated everywhere as well so you can see here we've got a new value which we can create and that's perfectly valid to be put into the database

we then went ahead and implemented a label on our enum so we could show a nice ui value to the user rather than just relying on the single value itself we also then went over to the order model and we implemented a getter or an accessor for the status itself so when we tried to access the status from a model we didn't get back just a plain string value we got back an enum itself

which means that what we could have then done is gone ahead and used the label again when we're retrieving this value from the database so hopefully the course gave you a good insight into how to use enums in laravel if you have multiple values that could be inserted into your database columns