Laravel eloquent updateOrCreate(), do something only if create?

I use in my laravel 5.5 app Model::updateOrCreate(), it works, but by 1 parameter I wish to do something only if entry is creating and not updating model, is this possible?

Cronix

8 years ago

Level 67

You could listen for the created (or creating) event. https://laravel.com/docs/5.5/eloquent#events

sutherland

8 years ago

Level 28

There is a wasRecentlyCreated property on models you can check. For example:

$model = Model::updateOrCreate(
    // ...
);

if($model->wasRecentlyCreated){
    // Do this only if it was recently created
}

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