Insert a Document

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Example

You can insert a document into a collection by calling the create() method on an Eloquent model or query builder.

To insert a document, pass the data you need to insert as a document containing the fields and values to the create() method.

Example

This usage example performs the following actions:

Uses the Movie Eloquent model to represent the movies collection in the sample_mflix database
Inserts a document into the movies collection

The example calls the create() method to insert a document that contains the following information:

title value of "Marriage Story"
year value of 2019
runtime value of 136

$movie = Movie::create([
    'title' => 'Marriage Story',
    'year' => 2019,
    'runtime' => 136,
]);
echo $movie->toJson();

{
    "title": "Marriage Story",
    "year": 2019,
    "runtime": 136,
    "updated_at": "...",
    "created_at": "...",
    "_id": "..."
}

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

Tip

You can also use the save() or insert() methods to insert a document into a collection. To learn more about insert operations, see the Insert Documents section of the Write Operations guide.

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