Nested Getters and Setters

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Added capabilities for models to get and set nested attributes using dot notation or camel-case.

$user = User::find($id);

$firstName = $user->nameFirst;

The above code would pull attributes from

$model->attributes['name']['first'];

$user->nameFirst = "David";

This would set the the attribute

$model->attribute['name']['first']

public function setNameFirstAttribute($value)
{
    $this->attributes['name']['first'] = $value;
}

public function getNameFirstAttribute($value)
{
    return "First name : " . $value;
}

public function getNameAttribute($value)
{
    $first = $this->getAttribute("name.first");
    $last = $this->getAttribute("name.last");

    return $first . ' ' . $last;
}

Mutators work using dot notation with the getAttribute() and setAttribute()

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Having spent some more time thinking this through, I don't think camel case is the way to go as that would conflict with the Eloquent way of getting underscored attributes. Maybe underscores to denote array depth with camel case attributes. Again this is a touchy subject as there would need to be database naming convention compromises made. Some suggestion on this would be good.