Laravel eloquent updateOrCreate(), do something only if create?

Question

I use in my laravel 5.5 app Model::updateOrCreate(), it works, but by 1 parameter I wish to do something only if entry is creating and not updating model, is this possible?

Answer 1

The updateOrCreate returns a model instance where you can check for recent creation

An example could be the following pseudo code

$model = Model::updateOrCreate($data);

if($model->wasRecentlyCreated) {
    // Do logic only when the model was created
}