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PHP Laravel 4 Basics Continuing CRUD Deleting & Destroy Data

Joel Byrd
Joel Byrd
507 Points
Posted by Joel Byrd
Joel Byrd
507 Points

update() vs. save()

What's the difference between update() and save()? In the Laravel documentation, it says to use save() both when creating a record and when updating one. But I noticed in the tutorial, Hampton is using update() to update a record (in the update controller method).

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J Scott Erickson
J Scott Erickson
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J Scott Erickson
J Scott Erickson
11,883 Points

Looking over documentation it seems like they're almost the same functionally. However it appears that update can work with multiple records at a time whereas save seems to be a method for single records.