Laravel 8 support + improved data manipulation methods

Aloia CMS 3.2.0 has been released with Laravel 8 support and improved getter and setter methods.

Here are the improvements as they’ve been implemented:

This change introduces a backward compatible change in getting and setting data on models:

Changes

addMatter(string $key, $value) is deprecated and now calls set(string $key, $value) under the hood
setMatter(array $matter) now won’t overwrite data that wasn’t provided in the input array. (example below)
__get(string $key) now calls get(string $key) under the hood, instead of directly accessing the matter array

Additions

Added has(string $key) method to check if data is present in the model.
Added get(string $key) method as a cleaner way to get a single value from the model.
Added set(string $key, $value) method as a better named alternative to addMatter().
Added remove(string $key) method to remove a data key from the model.

Example

When you set initial values on a model:

$article = \AloiaCms\Models\Article::find('testing')
    ->setMatter([
        'title' => 'Article title',
        'description' => 'description'
    ]);

And then set more data but with different keys:

$article = \AloiaCms\Models\Article::find('testing')
    ->setMatter([
        'summary' => 'Article summary',
        'description' => 'Article description'
    ]);

will now result in data that looks like this:

[
    'title' => 'Article title',
    'description' => 'Article description',
    'summary' => 'Article summary'
];

instead of what it resulted in before this change:

[
    'description' => 'Article description',
    'summary' => 'Article summary'
];

Only the provided keys are overwritten. So using setMatter() is no longer necessarily a destructive action.