laravel model callbacks after save, before save, etc

Question

Are there callbacks in Laravel like:

afterSave()
beforeSave()
etc

I searched but found nothing. If there are no such things - what is best

Answer 1

Even though this question has already been marked 'accepted' - I'm adding a new updated answer for Laravel 4.

Beta 4 of Laravel 4 has just introduced hook events for Eloquent save events - so you dont need to extend the core anymore:

Added Model::creating(Closure) and Model::updating(Closure) methods for hooking into Eloquent save events. Thank Phil Sturgeon for finally pressuring me into doing this... :)