Attribute aliases

[MichelJonkman]

A request to add attribute aliases to models. An attribute alias would act just like a normal attribute but with a different name.

class User extends \Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model
{

    protected $aliases = [
        'identifier' => 'id',
        'username' => 'name'
    ];

}

$model = User::find(1);
echo $model['identifier']; // Print the id attribute of the user
echo $model['username']; // Print the name attribute of the user

The implementation would probably have to be in Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Concerns\HasAttributes and be fairly simple.

Let me know what you think!

Edit: I had switched the key and value around accidentally, fixed that.

[fgaroby]

what would be the difference with the getXXXAttribute()method ?

public function getIdentifierAttribute(): string
{
    return $this->attributes['id'];
}

[MichelJonkman]

what would be the difference with the getXXXAttribute()method ?

public function getIdentifierAttribute(): string
{
    return $this->attributes['id'];
}

A shorter syntax and possibly a slight performance improvement. In my use case I have 44 different attributes, writing 88 different methods isn't very practical.

[SocolaDaiCa]

@99michel99 in model you can overwrite method __get and set to implemnt Attribute aliases

[SocolaDaiCa]

like that

[MichelJonkman]

Overwriting getAttribute() would be better, however ide-helper doesn't recognize it and I'm afraid other third or first party packages might not be compatible.

[SocolaDaiCa]

@99michel99 if you want ide helper can understand it, you need define phpdoc for it inside model

[MichelJonkman]

That would be a lot of work to do every time, which is why I'd love it as a feature in Laravel itself