Retrieving the object from a replicated row with Laravel/Eloquent

Question

I'm replicating a database row and want to return the new row as an object.

$new_foo = Foo::find($id)->replicate()->save();
print_r($new_foo);

This returns 1 instead of the new object I just created. Thoughts?

Answer 1

In your code, you are actually saving the value returned from the save() method and not the replicated model.

You need to make a slight change to your code to save the replicated model into $new_foo

$new_foo = Foo::find($id)->replicate();
$new_foo->save();
dd($new_foo);

save() method returns boolean.