PHP 8.4 Property Hooks in Laravel Models
PHP 8.4 property hooks are a tidy language-level alternative to getters and setters — but before you reach for them in your Eloquent models, there's a catch worth understanding.
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PHP 8.4 property hooks are a tidy language-level alternative to getters and setters — but before you reach for them in your Eloquent models, there's a catch worth understanding.
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