Laravel eloquent update record without loading from database

Question

I\'m quite new to laravel and I\'m trying to update a record from form\'s input. However I see that to update the record, first you need to fetch the record from database. Isn\

Answer 1

Use property exists:

$post = new Post();
$post->exists = true;
$post->id = 3; //already exists in database.
$post->title = "Updated title";
$post->save();

Here is the API documentation: http://laravel.com/api/5.0/Illuminate/Database/Eloquent/Model.html