Using Eloquent::firstOrCreate() to prevent duplicate seeding
Submitted by chadwithuhc - 10 years ago
Inside my seeders I often use this trick to prevent from re-seeding already present values. For example, if you are creating a base seed of production data -- say a pre-defined list of values -- and add a new item but do not want to delete all seed data and re-seed, you can try this. Note that, there are some flaws to it. Such as: It will not delete missing values if your new list has changed, or if you set the attributes too specific, you may end up creating a duplicate (for instance, if you have the same item with different `order` values due to rearranging in the list).
// Let's take a list and assume we've seeded this data once...
$relationship = array(
'Mother',
'Father',
'Sibling'
);
// And now we want to add to the list, two new options
$relationship = array(
'Mother',
'Father',
'Sibling',
'Grandparent',
'Pet'
);
// In our seeder if we do
foreach ($relationship as $name) {
RelationshipValues::firstOrCreate([
'name' => $name
]);
}
// Our new values will match what we have in our updated list.
// It will return the prior entry for existing values
// Or create a new one for non-existent
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