First Or Create

Question

I know using:

User::firstOrCreate(array(\'name\' => $input[\'name\'], \'email\' => $input[\'email\'], \'password\' => $input[\'password\']));
         


        

Answer 1

An update:

As of Laravel 5.3 doing this in a single step is possible; the firstOrCreate method now accepts an optional second array as an argument.

The first array argument is the array on which the fields/values are matched, and the second array is the additional fields to use in the creation of the model if no match is found via matching the fields/values in the first array:

See documentation