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Reza Khademi
Reza Khademi

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New way to define accessors and mutators in Laravel!

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As you know there is a way to define accessor and mutator in laravel like below.

For example if we are in user model (App\Models\User):

For 'first name' Getter 
 public function getFirstNameAttribute($value) { return ucfirst($value); }
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For 'first name' Settter 
 public function setFirstNameAttribute($value) { $this->attribute['first_name'] = strtolower($value); }
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There is a new way to achieve this scenario But I must say Taylor Otwell actually mentioned it and it is quite useful and nice.

You can define both setter and getter in one single method like below:

 public function firstName() :Attribute { return new Attribute ( get: fn($value, $attributes) => $attribute['first_name'], set: fn($value) => 'first_name' => $value ); }
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and that would do it as another way to define accessors and mutators both in one attribute function. If don't want to write any of these you can simply pass a null value for get/set.

Lets see two more examples for user model to cracked it down:

 public function fullName() :Attribute { return new Attribute( get: fn($value, $attributes) => $attributes['first_name'] . ' ' . $attributes['last_name'], set: function($value) { [$firstName, $lastName] = explode(" ", $value); return [ 'first_name' => $firstName, 'last_name' => $lastName ]; } ); } public function password() :Attribute { return new Attribute( get: null, set: fn($value) => bcrypt($value) ); }
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That's it... any questions?

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