PHP ActiveRecord doesn't seem to use my custom attribute

Question

I have a model defined as follows:

class User extends ActiveRecord\Model {
  function get_name() {
    return $this->first_name . " " . $this->surname;
  }
}

however when I show $item->attributes(); then name doesn't appear. Am I being an idiot here? If so, how do I get my custom attributes into the model?

Thanks, Gareth

Answer 1

Here's my simple solution. I've overriding the attributes method and adding any methods that start with "get_attribute_" so I can use them during serialization:

class BaseModel extends ActiveRecord\Model
{
    public function attributes()
    {
        $attrs = parent::attributes();
        $modelReflector = new ReflectionClass(get_class($this));
        $methods = $modelReflector->getMethods(~ReflectionMethod::IS_STATIC & ReflectionMethod::IS_PUBLIC);
        foreach ($methods as $method)
        {
            if (preg_match("/^get_attribute_/", $method->getName()))
            {
                $attrs[str_replace('get_attribute_', '', $method->getName())] = $method->invoke($this);
            }   
        }
        return $attrs;
    }
}

The resulting models that use this would look like this:

class User extends BaseModel
{
    public $loginSessionId;

    function get_attribute_loginSessionId(){
        return $this->loginSessionId;
    }
}

This way I can manually tack on the loginSessionId (or whatever else I want) and have it show up in the serialized values.