Laravel Checking If a Record Exists

Question

I am new to Laravel. Please excuse the newbie question but how do I find if a record exists?

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Answer 1

I think below way is the simplest way to achieving same :

    $user = User::where('email', '=', $request->input('email'))->first();
    if ($user) {
       // user doesn't exist!
    }