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Quick Tip

firstOr(): Perform any action on failure

When looking for a record, you may want to perform some actions if it's not found. In addition to ->firstOrFail() which just throws 404, you can perform any action on failure, just do ->firstOr(function() { ... })

$model = Flight::where('legs', '>', 3)->firstOr(function () {
// ...
})

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