public function getAttribute($key)
{
$inAttributes = array_key_exists($key, $this->attributes);
// If the key references an attribute, we can just go ahead and return the
// plain attribute value from the model. This allows every attribute to
// be dynamically accessed through the _get method without accessors.
if ($inAttributes or $this->hasGetMutator($key)) {
return $this->getAttributeValue($key);
}
// If the key already exists in the relationships array, it just means the
// relationship has already been loaded, so we'll just return it out of
// here because there is no need to query within the relations twice.
if (array_key_exists($key, $this->relations)) {
return $this->relations[$key];
}
// If the "attribute" exists as a method on the model, we will just assume
// it is a relationship and will load and return results from the query
// and hydrate the relationship's value on the "relationships" array.
$camelKey = camel_case($key);
if (method_exists($this, $camelKey)) {
$relations = $this->{$camelKey}()->getResults();
return $this->relations[$key] = $relations;
}
}