I am fairly new to Laravel and I have been trying to find the best way to create a cache wrapper for all models.

For example, when I search for a user by email, I want to do something like User->getByEmail('test@exmaple.com'); My model would contain a function that looks something like

public static function getByEmail($email) {
        $cache = self::cacheFetch($email);
        if($cache) {
            return $cache;
        }
        // DB lookup to get data
        self::cacheStore($email, $data);
        return $data;
    }

cacheFetch and cacheStore are defined as traits. The App name and table name are prepended to the cache key to avoid key clash.

How do I do the database lookup within the Model?

Is there a better way to achieve what I am trying to do here?