In this short snippet, you will learn how to make use of the "firstOrCreate" method in Laravel to retrieve an existing model and if it doesn't exist then it will create a new record. For the example let's find the post with a slug called "hello-world" and if it doesn't exists, then create a new model that has the word "hello-world" as a slug and "Hello World" for the title.
<?php
use App\Models\Post;
$post = Post::firstOrCreate(
['slug' => 'hello-world],
['slug' => 'hello-world', 'title' => 'Hello World']
);
// No need to call $post->save() methodThe "firstOrCreate" method accepts 2 parameters which the 1st one is the attribute to search the model and the 2nd one is the attributes that will be used to create the model.
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