Adding Setters and Getters to Laravel Model

Question

If I want an Eloquent Model class to have setters and getters for the sake of implementing an interface does the following approach make sense or is there a 'laravel' approach to the problem

class MyClass extends Model implements someContract
{

  public function setFoo($value) {
      parent::__set('foo', $value);
      return $this;
  }

  public function getFoo() {
      return parent::__get('foo');
  }
}

Answer 1

You are probably looking for accessors (getters) and mutators (setters).

Example of an accessor (getter) in Laravel:

public function getFirstNameAttribute($value)
{
    return ucfirst($value);
}

Example of a mutator (setter) in Laravel:

public function setFirstNameAttribute($value)
{
    $this->attributes['first_name'] = strtolower($value);
}