Laravel 8 firstOrCreate Not Working With $fillable - php

Question

I have this code in my controller:
$createAccreditorAccount = User::firstOrCreate(
['name' => "Accreditor"],
['nonofficial_category_id' => 0],
['role' => "accreditor"],
['email' => "accreditor#cvsucarmona.com"],
['password' => Hash::make('accreditor_cvsucarmona')],
['email_verified_at' => now()]
);
The error I get is this:
SQLSTATE[HY000]: General error: 1364 Field 'role' doesn't have a default value (SQL: insert into `users` (`name`, `nonofficial_category_id`, `updated_at`, `created_at`) values (Accreditor, 0, 2021-05-19 11:36:35, 2021-05-19 11:36:35))
Within the error display, it seems like the columns role, email and password do not fill my record.
I am pretty sure that I have included those columns in my $fillable.
Below is my User model:
<?php
namespace App\Models;
use Illuminate\Contracts\Auth\MustVerifyEmail;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Factories\HasFactory;
use Illuminate\Foundation\Auth\User as Authenticatable;
use Illuminate\Notifications\Notifiable;
class User extends Authenticatable
{
use HasFactory, Notifiable;
/**
* The attributes that are mass assignable.
*
* #var array
*/
protected $fillable = [
'name',
'role',
'subcategory',
'email',
'password',
'nonofficial_category_id',
];
/**
* The attributes that should be hidden for arrays.
*
* #var array
*/
protected $hidden = [
'password',
'remember_token',
];
/**
* The attributes that should be cast to native types.
*
* #var array
*/
protected $casts = [
'email_verified_at' => 'datetime',
];
public function nonOfficialsCategories()
{
return $this->belongsTo(NonOfficialsCategories::class, 'nonofficial_category_id');
}
}

Answer 1

You don't need to specify each field value in it's own array and provide them as separate parameters, firstOrCreate() only takes 2 parameters, the first array is the unique fields to check against and the second param is the array of values to insert or update. It should be more like this...
$createAccreditorAccount = User::firstOrCreate(
[ 'email' => "accreditor#cvsucarmona.com" ],
[
'name' => "Accreditor",
'nonofficial_category_id' => 0,
'role' => "accreditor",
'email' => "accreditor#cvsucarmona.com",
'password' => Hash::make('accreditor_cvsucarmona'),
'email_verified_at' => now()
]
);
To explain why you are getting the error that you are, the firstOrCreate() method is checking ['name' => "Accreditor"] to see if it's unique and then attempting to insert ['nonofficial_category_id' => 0], which only has the nonofficial_category_id column set, hence the complaint about role not having a default value, ergo, you need to provide a value.