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Gazzer
Gazzer

Reputation: 4646

How do I make a property private in a Laravel Eloquent Model?

Seems almost too obvious, but how do I make a class property private:

class User extends Model
{
   private $name; // or protected

}

$user = new User();
$user->name = "Mrs. Miggins";     // <- I want this to generate an error
echo $user->name; // Mrs. Miggins, (this too)

This is Laravel 5.1

Upvotes: 3

Views: 5110

Answers (1)

Roman
Roman

Reputation: 394

Try to override __get(){} and __set(){} magic methods, so it will be something like that:

class User extends Model
{
  protected $privateProperties = ['name'];

  public function __get($varName) {
      $this->isPrivate($varName);

      return parent::__get($varName);
  }

  public function __set($varName, $value) {
      $this->isPrivate($varName);

      return parent::__set($varName, $value);
  }

  protected function isPrivate($varName) {
      if (in_array($varName, $this->privateProperties)) {
          throw new \Exception('The ' . $varName. ' property is private');
      }
  }
}

Upvotes: 4

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