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Eloquent: The Expert Level (Laravel 9)

FirstOrCreate, and Other 2-in-1 Methods

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Alex Gower

2 years ago

Upsert is cool. Thanks I have not tried it yet.

Ryan

1 year ago

A useful feature of firstOrCreate and updateOrCreate which I use a lot is that you can pass two arrays to these methods. First array could just be a unique field to find an existing record and second array could be the remaining fields.

Eloquent: The Expert Level (Laravel 9)

FirstOrCreate, and Other 2-in-1 Methods

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