Update a Document

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Example

You can update a document in a collection by retrieving a single document and calling the update() method on an Eloquent model or a query builder.

Pass a query filter to the where() method, sort the matching documents, and call the first() method to retrieve only the first document. Then, update this matching document by passing your intended document changes to the update() method.

Example

This usage example performs the following actions:

Uses the Movie Eloquent model to represent the movies collection in the sample_mflix database
Updates a document from the movies collection that matches the query filter
Prints the number of updated documents

The example calls the following methods on the Movie model:

where(): matches documents in which the value of the title field is "Carol".
orderBy(): sorts matched documents by their ascending _id values.
first(): retrieves only the first matching document.
update(): updates the value of the imdb.rating nested field to from 6.9 to 7.3 and the value of the imdb.votes nested field from 493 to 142000.

$updates = Movie::where('title', 'Carol')
    ->orderBy('id')
    ->first()
    ->update([
        'imdb' => [
            'rating' => 7.3,
            'votes' => 142000,
        ],
    ]);
echo 'Updated documents: ' . $updates;

Updated documents: 1

To learn how to edit your Laravel application to run the usage example, see the Usage Examples landing page.

Tip

To learn more about updating data with the Laravel Integration, see the Modify Documents section of the Write Operations guide.

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