Is there any way that I can define and get a virtual field on a Model?
This is how Cakephp offering : Cakephp Doc
And
Laravel use setAttribute.
I will tell you using independent column mapping, but that will not work. Unless @phalcon says opposite, I will recomend creating a function to do that logic (I also didn't found anything in the docs).
U can use phalcon develop-tools to create model. It can create by self. LIke this in model:
user_id is true field and id is virtual field
<?php
public function columnMap()
{
return array(
'user_id' => 'id',
'user_name' => 'name',
'user_password' => 'password',
);
}
What you are looking for is the afterFetch hook:
Docs: https://docs.phalcon.io/en/latest/reference/models.html#initializing-preparing-fetched-records
Example using the same context as your link:
public $name;
public $firstName;
public $lastName;
public function getName()
{
return $this->getFirstName() . ' ' . $this->getLastName();
}
public function afterFetch()
{
$this->name = $this->getName;
}
So, How to add VIRTUAL field, if it doen't exists in table, but I need it for result?