Property Hooks

Serializable Property Hooks in Eloquent Model Without Conflicts

Read more about Active record segregation properties

ModelAttributes class look like this in PHP < 8.4:

<?php

namespace App\Models\Attributes;

use MacropaySolutions\LaravelCrudWizard\Models\Attributes\BaseModelAttributes;

/**
 * @property string $first_name
 * @property string $last_name
 * ...
 */
class UserAttributes extends BaseModelAttributes
{
}

Starting with PHP 8.4 it can look like this:

<?php

namespace App\Models\Attributes;

use MacropaySolutions\LaravelCrudWizard\Models\Attributes\BaseModelAttributes;

class UserAttributes extends BaseModelAttributes
{
  public string $full_name {
      get => $this->last_name . ' ' . $this->first_name;
      set(string $value) {
          $this->ownerBaseModel->setAttribute('full_name', $value); // if you want it to be persisted in the model
      }
  }
  
  //optional; can remain as @property string $first_name
  public string $first_name {
      get => $this->ownerBaseModel->getAttributeValue('first_name');// or $this->__get('first_name');
      set(string $value) {
          $this->ownerBaseModel->setAttribute('first_name', $value);// or $this->__set('first_name', $value);
      }
  }
  // optional; can remain as @property string $last_name
  public string $last_name {
      get => $this->ownerBaseModel->getAttributeValue('last_name');
      set(string $value) {
          $this->ownerBaseModel->setAttribute('last_name', $value);
      }
  }
}

making it a true entity. That also means that clashes with the Model’s properties are history.

Note that property hooks don’t work well with arrays! Read more here.

Also to make sure these are used also for $model->full_name not only for $model->a->full_name, override in your model:

    public function __set($key, $value)
    {
        $this->a->{$key} = $value;
    }

    public function __get($key)
    {
        return $this->hasAttribute($key)
          ? $this->a->{$key}
          : $this->r->{$key};
    }