Implementing custom getters and setters in Lithium

Entity.php

<?php

namespace path\to\lib;

use \lithium\data\entity\Record;

/**
 * This class can extend either \lithium\data\entity\Record or \lithium\data\entity\Document
 * and takes care of automatically calling getters and setters in the format getProperty and
 * setProperty.
 *
 * Implement by adding the following to the connection in your connections.php bootstrap:
 * 'classes' => array('entity' => 'path\to\lib\Entity')
 *
 * @see lithium\data\Entity
 */
class Entity extends Record {

	/**
	 * Extends custom getter to allow for custom getters
	 *
	 * @see \lithium\data\Entity::__get
	 */
	public function &__get($name) {
		if (isset($this->_relationships[$name])) {
			return $this->_relationships[$name];
		}
		if (isset($this->_updated[$name])) {
			$model = $this->_model;
			$method = 'get' . ucfirst($name);

			if (method_exists($model, $method)) {
				$result = $this->$method();
				return $result;
			}
			return $this->_updated[$name];
		}
		$null = null;
		return $null;
	}

	/**
	 * Extends magic setter to allow for custom setters
	 *
	 * @see \lithium\data\Entity::__set
	 */
	public function __set($name, $value = null) {
		if (is_array($name) && !$value) {
			return array_map(array(&$this, '__set'), array_keys($name), array_values($name));
		}

		$model = $this->_model;
		$method = 'set' . ucfirst($name);

		if (method_exists($model, 'set' . ucfirst($name))) {
			$value = $this->$method($value);
		}

		$this->_updated[$name] = $value;
	}
}

Model.php

<?php

namespace path\to\lib;

class Model extends \lithium\data\Model {

	/**
	 * Over-ridden create method to prevent passing data. This enforces all data applied
	 * to a model being fed through the magic setter.
	 *
	 * @see \lithium\data\Model::create
	 */
	public static function create(array $data = array(), array $options = array()) {
		$new = parent::create(array(), $options);
		$new->set($data);
		return $new;
	}
}