Overloading standard getters

Question

I want to make a custom getter that should return two fields of the model instead of one. I have the attribute name like first_name. And the getter I am making is

public function getFirstName(){
        return 1;
}

And then I try to get it called in a CDetailView like this

'client.first_name:raw:Client',

But it returns the standard attribute of the model. How to do it right?

Answer 1

Yii's order of operations to retrieve an attribute is as follows:

• AR attribute
• public variable
• custom getter

I'm not sure whether AR attributes or public variables are pulled first, but I do know that if either of them exist, your custom getter won't be called.

If you already have a first_name attribute (from AR), then you'll need to use a different name for your getter and use that.