Concat two properties

[codetestmg]

This library really good but I have a use case where I need to contact property value with other property value .for example

class SongData extends Data
{
   
    public string $firstName,
	public string $lastName,
    public string $recordCompany,

}

Here i want lastName value to be firstName."-".lastName;

is this possible using laravel-data

[Nir-An]

Hi @codetestmg

the package doesn't limit you from doing whatever you want.

it is only simple PHP manipulation, for example

class SongData extends Spatie\LaravelData\Data
{
    public function __construct(
        public ?string $firstName,
        public string $lastName,
        public string $recordCompany,
    ) {
    }

    public static function fromArray(array $songData): SongData
    {
        return new self(
            firstName: null,
            lastName: $songData['firstName'].'-'.$songData['lastName'],
            recordCompany: "company"
        );
    }
}

$songArr = ['firstName' => 'hello', 'lastName' => 'world'];
SongData::from($songArr)->toArray();
// [  "firstName" => null,  "lastName" => "hello-world", "recordCompany" => "company" ]

source:
https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-data/v2/getting-started/quickstart#content-customizing-the-creation-of-a-data-object