Update or Create

If you need to check if the record exists, and then update it, or create a new record otherwise, you can do it in one sentence - use Eloquent method updateOrCreate():

 1// Instead of this
 2$flight = Flight::where('departure', 'Oakland')
 3    ->where('destination', 'San Diego')
 4    ->first();
 5if ($flight) {
 6    $flight->update(['price' => 99, 'discounted' => 1]);
 7} else {
 8    $flight = Flight::create([
 9        'departure' => 'Oakland',
10        'destination' => 'San Diego',
11        'price' => 99,
12        'discounted' => 1
13    ]);
14}
15// Do it in ONE sentence
16$flight = Flight::updateOrCreate(
17    ['departure' => 'Oakland', 'destination' => 'San Diego'],
18    ['price' => 99, 'discounted' => 1]
19);