Creating and Update Laravel Eloquent

Question

What\'s the shorthand for inserting a new record or updating if it exists?

Answer 1

Here's a full example of what "lu cip" was talking about:

$user = User::firstOrNew(array('name' => Input::get('name')));
$user->foo = Input::get('foo');
$user->save();

Below is the updated link of the docs which is on the latest version of Laravel

Docs here: Updated link

Answer 2

Save function:

$shopOwner->save()

already do what you want...

Laravel code:

    // If the model already exists in the database we can just update our record
    // that is already in this database using the current IDs in this "where"
    // clause to only update this model. Otherwise, we'll just insert them.
    if ($this->exists)
    {
        $saved = $this->performUpdate($query);
    }

    // If the model is brand new, we'll insert it into our database and set the
    // ID attribute on the model to the value of the newly inserted row's ID
    // which is typically an auto-increment value managed by the database.
    else
    {
        $saved = $this->performInsert($query);
    }

Answer 3

One more option if your id isn't autoincrement and you know which one to insert/update:

$object = MyModel::findOrNew($id);
//assign attributes to update...
$object->save();

Answer 4

If you need the same functionality using the DB, in Laravel >= 5.5 you can use:

DB::table('table_name')->updateOrInsert($attributes, $values);

or the shorthand version when $attributes and $values are the same:

DB::table('table_name')->updateOrInsert($values);

Answer 5

check if a user exists or not. If not insert

$exist = DB::table('User')->where(['username'=>$username,'password'=>$password])->get();
if(count($exist)  >0) {
    echo "User already exist";;
}
else  {
    $data=array('username'=>$username,'password'=>$password);
    DB::table('User')->insert($data);
}
Laravel 5.4           

Answer 6

firstOrNew will create record if not exist and updating a row if already exist. You can also use updateOrCreate here is the full example

$flight = App\Flight::updateOrCreate(
    ['departure' => 'Oakland', 'destination' => 'San Diego'],
    ['price' => 99]
); 

If there's a flight from Oakland to San Diego, set the price to $99. if not exist create new row

Reference Doc here: (https://laravel.com/docs/5.5/eloquent)