Automatic Column Value When Creating Records

If you want to generate some DB column value when creating record, add it to model's boot() method. For example, if you have a field "position" and want to assign the next available position to the new record (like Country::max('position') + 1), do this:

 1class Country extends Model {
 2    protected static function boot()
 3    {
 4        parent::boot();
 5 
 6        Country::creating(function($model) {
 7            $model->position = Country::max('position') + 1;
 8        });
 9    }
10}