AttributeMapTrait

This trait provides a convenient way to rename attributes in your project.

It is written for a Laravel 5 project, and assumes that it will be used in Eloquent models.

Installation

Install the package via Composer. I am not yet uploading this to packagist, so to include the project, you also need to include the repository. Edit your composer.json file to require jijoel/attribute-map-trait:

"require": {
    "jijoel/attribute-map-trait": "dev-master"
},
"repositories": {
    "attribute-map-trait": {
        "type": "vcs",
        "url":  "https://github.com/jijoel/AttributeMapTrait.git"
    }
},

Next, update Composer from the terminal:

composer update

Usage

use Jijoel\AttributeMapTrait;

class Foo extends Model { use AttributeMapTrait;

protected $attributeMap = [
    'field1' => ['long_field_name_1', 'default_value'],
    'field2' => ['even_longer_field_name', 0],
    'field3' => 'one more field name'
];

}

You can now access $foo->field1. It will get or set data you would ordinarily get from $foo->long_field_name_1.

If you use an array, the second item is the default value if the field is null.