{"id":11157,"date":"2021-12-09T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-09T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gigas-jp.com\/appnews\/?p=11157"},"modified":"2021-12-08T17:19:57","modified_gmt":"2021-12-08T08:19:57","slug":"different-laravel-methods-firstornew-firstorcreate-firstor-and-updateorcreate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gigas-jp.com\/appnews\/archives\/11157","title":{"rendered":"Different Laravel methods firstOrNew, firstOrCreate, firstOr, and updateOrCreate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Standard methods for creating Eloquent Models like make()<\/code>, create()<\/code>, update<\/code>, and save()<\/code>. Laravel includes some other methods are that also really useful for creating and updating Models that I feel don\u2019t get enough attention. So in this article, I\u2019d like to go over some of these additional methods and explain how they might be useful. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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1<\/strong>. firstOrNew<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The firstOrNew<\/code> method is really useful for finding the first Model that matches some constraints or making a new one if there isn\u2019t one that matches those constraints.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can take a piece of code that looks like this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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$user = User::where(‘email,’$request->email)->first();<\/p>\n\n\n\n

if($user === null){<\/p>\n\n\n\n

$user = new User([ ‘email’ => $request->email ]);<\/p>\n\n\n\n

$user->name = $request->name;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

$user->save();<\/p>\n\n\n\n

}<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And turn it into this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

$user = User::firstOrNew( [ ‘email’ => $request->email ] );<\/p>\n\n\n\n

$user->name = $request->name;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

$user->save();<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You may also pass an array of additional attributes to set as the second parameter if no existing Model is found:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

$user = User::firstOrNew([‘email’ => request(‘email’)],[‘name’ => request(‘name’)]);<\/p>\n\n\n\n

$user->save();<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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2<\/strong>.firstOrCreate<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I recently found the firstOr<\/code> method while source-diving. The firstOr<\/code> method retrieves the first Model from a query, or if no matching Model is found, it will call a callback passed. This can be really useful if you need to perform extra steps when creating a user or want to do something other than creating a new user: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

$user = User::where(‘email,’$request->email)->firstOr(function(){<\/p>\n\n\n\n

$account = Account::create([<\/p>\n\n\n\n

return User::create([<\/p>\n\n\n\n

‘account_id’ => $account->id,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

‘email’ => $request->email<\/p>\n\n\n\n

]);<\/p>\n\n\n\n

]);<\/p>\n\n\n\n

}); <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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3<\/strong>.firstOr<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I recently found the firstOr<\/code> method while source-diving. The firstOr<\/code> method retrieves the first Model from a query, or if no matching Model is found, it will call a callback passed. This can be really useful if you need to perform extra steps when creating a user or want to do something other than creating a new user:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

$user = User::where(‘email,’$request->email)->firstOr(function(){<\/p>\n\n\n\n

$account = Account::create([<\/p>\n\n\n\n

return User::create([<\/p>\n\n\n\n

‘account_id’ => $account->id,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

‘email’ => $request->email<\/p>\n\n\n\n

]);<\/p>\n\n\n\n

]);<\/p>\n\n\n\n

}); <\/p>\n\n\n\n

4.updateOrCreate<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The updateOrCreate<\/code> method attempts to find a Model matching the constraints passed as the first parameter. If a matching Model is found, it will update the match with the attributes passed as the second parameter. If no matching Model is found a new Model will be created with both the constraints passed as the first parameter and the attributes passed as the second parameter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can refactor this piece of code:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

$user = User::where(‘email,’$request->email)->first();<\/p>\n\n\n\n

if($user !== null){<\/p>\n\n\n\n

$user->update([‘name’ => $request->name]);<\/p>\n\n\n\n

}else{<\/p>\n\n\n\n

$user = User::create([<\/p>\n\n\n\n

‘email’ => $request->email,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

‘name’ => $request->name<\/p>\n\n\n\n

]);<\/p>\n\n\n\n

}<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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To this using the updateOrCreate<\/code> method:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

$user = User::updateOrCreate([<\/p>\n\n\n\n

‘email’ => $request->email,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

‘name’ => $request->name<\/p>\n\n\n\n

]);<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tsuki<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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