Four Ways Get Last ID of an Inserted Model - Laravel

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I found this great resource https://www.larashout.com/laravel-8-get-last-id-of-an-inserted-model which contains 4 methods Get Last ID of an Inserted Model It's great to share this as from projects I needed to get an ID I will show briefly, but visit the source to go deeper.

Using Eloquent Save Method

$product = new Product();
$product->name = "product name";
$product->save();

$productId = $product->id();
dd($productId); // will spit out product id

Using Elogquent Create Method

$product = Product::create(['name' => 'product name']);

$productId = $product->id();
dd($productId); // will spit out product id

Using DB Facade (insertGetId())

$productId = DB::table('products')->insertGetId(
    [ 'name' => 'product name' ]
);

dd($productId); // will spit out product id

Using getPDO() Method (lastInsertId())

$product = DB::table('users')->insert(
    [ 'name' => 'product name' ]
); 
$productId = DB::getPdo()->lastInsertId();.

dd($productId); // will spit out product id