Cast Laravel query results to class

Question

When creating a query using the syntax DB::table(\'foo\'), it creates a generic class (stdClass). Is there any way to cast the resulting rows to a specific class?

Answer 1

You cannot type cast it this way.
You can build change Your Foo class to get handle of object and work with it.

class Foo {
  private $object = null;
  public function __construct(stdClass $object) {
    $this->object = $object;
  }

  public function __get($property) {
    if (property_exists($this->object, $property)) {
      return $this->object->$property;
    }
  }

  public function __set($property, $value) {
    if (property_exists($this->object, $property)) {
      $this->object->$property = $value;
    }
    return $this;
  }

  public static function make(stdClass $object) {
    return new self($object);
  }

  public static function makeCollection(array $collection) {
    foreach($collection AS $key => $Item) {
      $collection[$key] = self::make($Item);
    }
    return $collection;
  }
}

$result = DB::table('foo')->get();
$converted = Foo::makeCollection($result);