Custom setters and getters in Laravel - php

Question

Here's a tricky question.
I am building a framework in Laravel and I want my objects to interact with Rackspace in a transparent way.
From now on I made it possible to upload/delete objects without having in mind Rackspace
$model->file = Input::file('thing'); // and it uploads to Rackspace.
The next step I want to achieve is to get the route using my config file. The behaviour would be something like $route = $file->source (with source with hello.jpg in the database for instance) and get $route as rackspace.com/WHATEVER/hello.jpg. The part rackspace.com/WHATEVER is in my config file, so the only thing I need is how to make this behaviour.
I have been searching extensively and I only found the __call() method to do so.
The fields I want to behave like this are dynamic and are setted from an array such as:
public static $rackspaceable = array('source' => 'images-demo');
Where images-demo is a Rackspace container.
Does anyone knows to achieve that and if it is even possible?

Answer 1

This might be what you are looking for:
class Model extends Eloquent {
public static $rackspaceable = array('source' => 'images-demo');
public function __get($key)
{
if (isset(static::$rackspaceable[$key]))
{
return static::$rackspaceable[$key];
}
return parent::__get($key);
}
public function __set($key, $value)
{
if (isset(static::$rackspaceable[$key]))
{
static::$rackspaceable[$key] = $value;
}
else
{
parent::__set($key, $value);
}
}
}
To use it:
$model = new Model;
var_dump( $model->source );
$model->source = 'new value';
var_dump( $model->source );