Laravel eloquent update record without loading from database

Question

I\'m quite new to laravel and I\'m trying to update a record from form\'s input. However I see that to update the record, first you need to fetch the record from database. Isn\

Answer 1

You can also use firstOrCreate OR firstOrNew

// Retrieve the Post by the attributes, or create it if it doesn't exist...
$post = Post::firstOrCreate(['id' => 3]);
// OR
// Retrieve the Post by the attributes, or instantiate a new instance...
$post = Post::firstOrNew(['id' => 3]); 

// update record
$post->title = "Updated title";
$post->save();

Hope it will help you :)