Laravel Checking If a Record Exists

It depends if you want to work with the user afterwards or only check if one exists.

If you want to use the user object if it exists:

$user = User::where('email', '=', Input::get('email'))->first();
if ($user === null) {
   // user doesn't exist
}

And if you only want to check

if (User::where('email', '=', Input::get('email'))->count() > 0) {
   // user found
}

Or even nicer

if (User::where('email', '=', Input::get('email'))->exists()) {
   // user found
}

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if (User::where('email', Input::get('email'))->exists()) {
    // exists
}

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In laravel eloquent, has default exists() method, refer followed example.

if (User::where('id', $user_id )->exists()) {
    // your code...
}

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One of the best solution is to use the firstOrNew or firstOrCreate method. The documentation has more details on both.

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if($user->isEmpty()){
    // has no records
}

Eloquent uses collections. See the following link: https://laravel.com/docs/5.4/eloquent-collections

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Laravel 5.6.26v

to find the existing record through primary key ( email or id )

    $user = DB::table('users')->where('email',$email)->first();

then

      if(!$user){
             //user is not found 
      }
      if($user){
             // user found 
      }

include " use DB " and table name user become plural using the above query like user to users

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if (User::where('email', 'user@email.com')->first()) {
    // It exists
} else {
    // It does not exist
}

Use first(), not count() if you only need to check for existence.

first() is faster because it checks for a single match whereas count() counts all matches.

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This will check if requested email exist in the user table:

if (User::where('email', $request->email)->exists()) {
   //email exists in user table
}

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It is a bit late but it might help someone who is trying to use User::find()->exists() for record existence as Laravel shows different behavior for find() and where() methods. Considering email as your primary key let's examine the situation.

$result = User::find($email)->exists();

If a user record with that email exists then it will return true. However the confusing thing is that if no user with that email exists then it will throw an error. i.e

Call to a member function exists() on null.

But the case is different for where() thing.

$result = User::where("email", $email)->exists();

The above clause will give true if record exists and false if record doesn't exists. So always try to use where() for record existence and not find() to avoid NULL error.

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In your Controller

$this->validate($request, [
        'email' => 'required|unique:user|email',
    ]); 

In your View - Display Already Exist Message

@if (count($errors) > 0)
    <div class="alert alert-danger">
        <ul>
            @foreach ($errors->all() as $error)
                <li>{{ $error }}</li>
            @endforeach
        </ul>
    </div>
@endif

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Checking for null within if statement prevents Laravel from returning 404 immediately after the query is over.

if ( User::find( $userId ) === null ) {

    return "user does not exist";
}
else {
    $user = User::find( $userId );

    return $user;
}

It seems like it runs double query if the user is found, but I can't seem to find any other reliable solution.

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if ($u = User::where('email', '=', $value)->first())
{
   // do something with $u
   return 'exists';
} else {
  return 'nope';
}

would work with try/catch

->get() would still return an empty array

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$email = User::find($request->email);
If($email->count()>0)
<h1>Email exist, please make new email address</h1>
endif

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Simple, comfortable and understandable with Validator

class CustomerController extends Controller
{
    public function register(Request $request)
    {

        $validator = Validator::make($request->all(), [
            'name' => 'required|string|max:255',
            'email' => 'required|string|email|max:255|unique:customers',
            'phone' => 'required|string|max:255|unique:customers',
            'password' => 'required|string|min:6|confirmed',
        ]);

        if ($validator->fails()) {
            return response(['errors' => $validator->errors()->all()], 422);
        }

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I solved this, using empty() function:

$user = User::where('email', Input::get('email'))->get()->first();
//for example:
if (!empty($user))
    User::destroy($user->id);

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you have seen plenty of solution, but magical checking syntax can be like,

$model = App\Flight::findOrFail(1);

$model = App\Flight::where('legs', '>', 100)->firstOrFail();

it will automatically raise an exception with response 404, when not found any related models Sometimes you may wish to throw an exception if a model is not found. This is particularly useful in routes or controllers. The fingernail and firstOrFail methods will retrieve the first result of the query; however, if no result is found, an Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\ModelNotFoundException will be thrown.

Ref: https://laravel.com/docs/5.8/eloquent#retrieving-single-models

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This will check if particular email address exist in the table:

if (isset(User::where('email', Input::get('email'))->value('email')))
{
    // Input::get('email') exist in the table 
}

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Shortest working options:

// if you need to do something with the user 
if ($user = User::whereEmail(Input::get('email'))->first()) {

    // ...

}

// otherwise
$userExists = User::whereEmail(Input::get('email'))->exists();

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$user = User::where('email', '=', Input::get('email'))->first();
if ($user === null) {
   // user doesn't exist
}

can be written as

if (User::where('email', '=', Input::get('email'))->first() === null) {
   // user doesn't exist
}

This will return true or false without assigning a temporary variable if that is all you are using $user for in the original statement.

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$user = User::where('email', request('email'))->first();
return (count($user) > 0 ? 'Email Exist' : 'Email Not Exist');

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I think below way is the simplest way to achieving same :

    $user = User::where('email', '=', $request->input('email'))->first();
    if ($user) {
       // user doesn't exist!
    }

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Created below method (for myself) to check if the given record id exists on Db table or not.

private function isModelRecordExist($model, $recordId)
{
    if (!$recordId) return false;

    $count = $model->where(['id' => $recordId])->count();

    return $count ? true : false;
}

// To Test
$recordId = 5;
$status = $this->isModelRecordExist( (new MyTestModel()), $recordId);

Home It helps!

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The Easiest Way to do

    public function update(Request $request, $id)
{


    $coupon = Coupon::where('name','=',$request->name)->first(); 

    if($coupon->id != $id){
        $validatedData = $request->validate([
            'discount' => 'required',   
            'name' => 'required|unique:coupons|max:255',      
        ]);
    }


    $requestData = $request->all();
    $coupon = Coupon::findOrFail($id);
    $coupon->update($requestData);
    return redirect('admin/coupons')->with('flash_message', 'Coupon updated!');
}

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Laravel 6 or on the top: Write the table name, then give where clause condition for instance where('id', $request->id)

 public function store(Request $request)
    {

        $target = DB:: table('categories')
                ->where('title', $request->name)
                ->get()->first();
        if ($target === null) { // do what ever you need to do
            $cat = new Category();
            $cat->title = $request->input('name');
            $cat->parent_id = $request->input('parent_id');
            $cat->user_id=auth()->user()->id;
            $cat->save();
            return redirect(route('cats.app'))->with('success', 'App created successfully.');

        }else{ // match found 
            return redirect(route('cats.app'))->with('error', 'App already exists.');
        }

    }

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If you want to insert a record in the database if a record with the same email not exists then you can do as follows:

$user = User::updateOrCreate(
    ['email' => Input::get('email')],
    ['first_name' => 'Test', 'last_name' => 'Test']
);

The updateOrCreate method's first argument lists the column(s) that uniquely identify records within the associated table while the second argument consists of the values to insert or update.

You can check out the docs here: Laravel upserts doc

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You can use laravel validation if you want to insert a unique record:

$validated = $request->validate([
    'title' => 'required|unique:usersTable,emailAddress|max:255',
]);

But also you can use these ways:

1:

if (User::where('email',  $request->email)->exists())
{
  // object exists
} else {
  // object not found
}

2:

$user = User::where('email',  $request->email)->first();

if ($user)
{
  // object exists
} else {
  // object not found
}

3:

$user = User::where('email',  $request->email)->first();

if ($user->isNotEmpty())
{
  // object exists
} else {
  // object not found
}

4:

$user = User::where('email',  $request->email)->firstOrCreate([
      'email' => 'email'
],$request->all());

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$userCnt     = User::where("id",1)->count();
if( $userCnt ==0 ){
     //////////record not exists 
}else{
      //////////record exists 
}

Note :: Where condition according your requirements.

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here is a link to something l think can assist https://laraveldaily.com/dont-check-record-exists-methods-orcreate-ornew/

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The efficient way to check if the record exists you must use is_null method to check against the query.

The code below might be helpful:

$user = User::where('email', '=', Input::get('email'));
if(is_null($user)){
 //user does not exist...
}else{
 //user exists...
}

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It's simple to get to know if there are any records or not

$user = User::where('email', '=', Input::get('email'))->get();
if(count($user) > 0)
{
echo "There is data";
}
else
echo "No data";

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