php - Laravel Eloquent create related item doesnt save

I encounterd a strange issue / bug today.

I have an orders table and a table for the assigned products (order_items) Everything works fine when creating a new order, the items are saved as they should be.


$order = Orders::create($request->all());

if (!empty($order)) {
    foreach ($request->get('items') as $item) {
        $item['order_id'] = $order->id;
        OrderItems::create($item);
    }
}

The issue is that I can't add items later on, for whatever reason. I'm not getting any errors or wrong responses, even the auto-increment of the order_items table increases.


Orders::findOrFail($id)->update($request->all());

if(isset($data['items']) && is_array($data['items'])) {
    foreach ($data['items'] as $item) {
        if (!empty($item['id'])) {
            OrderItems::findOrFail($item['id'])->update($item);
            continue;
        }

        $item['order_id'] = $id;
        OrderItems::create($item);
    }
}

Answer

Solution:

If your item is not found, this will throw an exception and exuction of your script will halt.

OrderItems::findOrFail($item['id'])->update($item);

You need to catch the exception like this:

try {
    OrderItems::findOrFail($item['id'])->update($item);
} catch (\Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\ModelNotFoundException $exception) {
    $item['order_id'] = $id;
    OrderItems::create($item);
}

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