How to set multiple boolean mutators - laravel

Question

I'm using Laravel 4 and I have a model with a lot of boolean attributes.
For each of them I'm setting a setter like this
public function setIsRemoteAttribute($value){
$this->attributes['isRemote'] = !!$value;
}
and a getter like this
public function getIsRemoteAttribute($value){
return !! $this->attributes['isRemote'];
}
Is there any way to abstract that out so I'm not individually setting 12+ mutators?

Answer 1

I guess you can override setAttribute method like:
public function setAttribute($key, $value){
if(in_array($key, 'abstract_keys')){
$this->attributes[$key] = !!$value;
}
else{
parent::setAttribute($key, $value);
}
}
Same would go for getAttribute.

Answer 2

I have L5 installation but I'm pretty sure this will apply to L4.2 as well.
If you look in the code for Eloquent's Model class you will find the following method:
/**
* Set a given attribute on the model.
*
* #param string $key
* #param mixed $value
* #return void
*/
public function setAttribute($key, $value)
{
// First we will check for the presence of a mutator for the set operation
// which simply lets the developers tweak the attribute as it is set on
// the model, such as "json_encoding" an listing of data for storage.
if ($this->hasSetMutator($key))
{
$method = 'set'.studly_case($key).'Attribute';
return $this->{$method}($value);
}
// If an attribute is listed as a "date", we'll convert it from a DateTime
// instance into a form proper for storage on the database tables using
// the connection grammar's date format. We will auto set the values.
elseif (in_array($key, $this->getDates()) && $value)
{
$value = $this->fromDateTime($value);
}
if ($this->isJsonCastable($key))
{
$value = json_encode($value);
}
$this->attributes[$key] = $value;
}
You could potentially, override this function in your own model:
Store a list of attributes that should get the boolean mutator
Check if $key is within this list of elements
If it is - do something
If it's not, default to the parent implementation (This method)
Example:
public function setAttribute($key, $value)
{
if (in_array($key, $this->booleans))
{
// Do your stuff here - make sure to return it
}
return parent::setAttribute($key, $value);
}
You can do the same thing for the getAttribute method.
With this approach, all you need to do is add the names of the attributes to the list of booleans for them to work.
protected $booleans = array('attr1', 'attr2');