A simple way to add toObject ability to eloquent models. Usefull for generating stdClass objects instead of flat arrays.

LaravelEnhancedModel.php

<?php namespace Atrakeur\EnhancedModels;

use \stdClass;

abstract class EnhancedModel extends \Eloquent {

	/*****************************************
	 * Act like toArray but generate stdClass objects on the current object.
	 *****************************************/
	public function toObject()
	{
		return $this->convertToObject($this);
	}

	/*****************************************
	 * Act like toArray but generate stdClass objects on the given object.
	 *****************************************/
	public function convertToObject($value)
	{

		if ($value instanceof \Eloquent)
		{
			$attributes = $value->toArray();
			$relations  = $value->relationsToArray();

			$object = new stdClass();
			
			foreach($attributes AS $key => $attribute)
			{
				if (array_key_exists($key, $relations)) 
				{
					$key = camel_case($key);
					$object->$key = $this->convertToObject($value->$key);
				}
				else 
				{
					$object->$key = $attribute;
				}
			}

			return $object;
		}

		if ($value instanceof \Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Collection)
		{
			$array = array();
			
			foreach($value AS $key => $element)
			{
				$array[$key] = $this->convertToObject($element);
			}
			
			return $array;
		}

		return $value;
	}
}

The recursive nature of this solution doesn't seem to work right when you have a relation that is a collection instead of a single object. I found I could get the results I wanted from:
json_decode($object->toJson())