Passing a boolean value from checkbox in Laravel form

PHP Snippet 1:

<?php

namespace App;

use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;

class Post extends Model
{
    protected $casts = [
        'is_featured' => 'boolean',
        'is_place' => 'boolean',
    ];
}

PHP Snippet 2:

<input type="checkbox" name="is_featured" class="switch-input" value="1" {{ old('is_featured') ? 'checked="checked"' : '' }}/>

PHP Snippet 3:

$post->is_featured = $request->has('is_featured');