Laravel addOrUpdate() on basis of related table values? - php

Question

Below is something I am trying to do:
I have users table and user_profiles table and I am inserting name, email in users table and phone, address, .... etc in user_profiles table.
I have to match each value to prevent duplication of user, I have found this laravel method addOrUpdate() but it works only for one table. But I have to match user_profiles values too i.e phone,address.
Below is example code
$result = $customer->updateOrCreate([
'name' => $request->name,
'city_id' => $request->city_id,
'area_id' => $request->area_id,
'email' => $request->email
], [
'name' => $request->name,
'city_id' => $request->city_id,
'area_id' => $request->area_id,
'email' => $request->email
]);
There any way to achieve this using Laravel techniques?
Regards

Answer 1

First make a relationship with user and user_profiles model like-
public function userProfile()
{
return $this->hasOne('App\Model\UserProfile','user_id','id');
}
And then in your post controller as you want to match each value to prevent duplication of user-
$result = User::where('name',$request->name)->where('email',$request->email)
->whereHas('userProfile', function($q) use ($request){
$q->where('city_id'$request->city_id)->where('area_id',$request->area_id)
)->first();
if(!$result){
////your registration here
}

Answer 2

If you want to check if a user with exactly the same data exists, you can't use updateOrCreate(). Do this instead:
$user = User::where('name', $request->name)->where('email', $request->email)->first();
$profile = $user->profile()->where('phone', $request->phone)->where('address', $request->address)->count();
if ($user && $profile) {
// User exists.
}

Answer 3

I would recommend using Laravel's Validator Facade. https://laravel.com/docs/5.4/validation#manually-creating-validators
This would check to make sure the name and email fields of the users and users_profile table are unique.
$validator = Validator::make($request->all(), [
'name' => 'required|unique:users|unique:users_profile',
'email' => 'required|unique:users|unique:users_profile',
]);

Answer 4

You could use updateOrCreate for both of your models for sake of uniqueness i assume email should be unique so first updateOrCreate() method will check if user exists for parameter $request->email then update if not then create and return user model instance (in both update/create case)
Second updateOrCreate() on UserProfile will check if there exist any data for user_id then update else add new row, I assume user_id will be a foreign key in user profile table
$user = User::updateOrCreate([
'email' => $request->email
], [
'name' => $request->name,
'email' => $request->email
]);
UserProfile::updateOrCreate([
'user_id' => $user->id
], [
'user_id' => $user->id,
'city_id' => $request->city_id,
'area_id' => $request->area_id
]);