Laravel - find by custom column or fail

Question

There\'s findOrFail() method which throws 404 if nothing was found, e.g.:

User::findOrFail(1);

Answer 1

Update: I'm currently using Laravel 6.9.0 and I confirm that @jeff-puckett is right. Where clause works fine. This is how it works on my tinker.

>>> \App\Models\User::findOrFail('123b5545-5adc-4c59-9a27-00d035c1d212');
>>> App\Models\User
     id: "123b5545-5adc-4c59-9a27-00d035c1d212",
     name: "John",
     surname: "Graham",
     email: "john.graham@test.com",
     email_verified_at: "2020-01-03 16:01:53",
     created_at: "2020-01-03 16:01:59",
     updated_at: "2020-01-03 16:01:59",
     deleted_at: null,

>>> \App\Models\User::where('name', 'Buraco')->findOrFail('123b5545-5adc-4c59-9a27-00d035c1d212');
>>> Illuminate/Database/Eloquent/ModelNotFoundException with message 'No query results for model [App/Models/User] 123b5545-5adc-4c59-9a27-00d035c1d212'


>>> \App\Models\User::where('name', 'John')->findOrFail('123b5545-5adc-4c59-9a27-00d035c1d212');
>>> App\Models\User
     id: "123b5545-5adc-4c59-9a27-00d035c1d212",
     name: "John",
     surname: "Graham",
     email: "john.graham@test.com",
     email_verified_at: "2020-01-03 16:01:53",
     created_at: "2020-01-03 16:01:59",
     updated_at: "2020-01-03 16:01:59",
     deleted_at: null,

Outdated:
It took at least two hours to realize that if you chain firstOrFail() method after where() in Laravel 5.6, it basically tries to retrieve the first record of the table and removes where clauses. So call firstOrFail before where.

Model::firstOrFail()->where('something', $value)