Create vs. instance about factory-muffin HOT 8 CLOSED

  Are you using this with Laravel?
  The reason i ask, is that save() should not duplicate. Once the
    model has been saved once, it will be given an ID, and will then
    update instead of inserting from then on. Or at least it should

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  Hmm maybe they return false if you have no changed anything in
    the model since the last save. 
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<?php
use LaravelBook\Ardent\Ardent;
class PhoneModel extends Ardent {
  /**
   * List of fields that can be automatically filled in from form
data
   * @var array
   */
    protected $fillable = array("name", "description", "notes");
  /**
   * Validation Rules
   * @var array
   */
    public static $rules = array(
    'name' =>
'required|unique:phone_models|alpha_num|between:4,16',
    'description' => 'required'
  );
  /**
   * Rules for FactoryMuff to be able to generate arbitrary entries
   * @var array
   */
  public static $factory = array(
    'name' => 'string',
    'description' => 'string',
    'notes' => 'string',
  );
  /**
   * hydrates on new entries' validation
   * @var boolean
   */
  public $autoHydrateEntityFromInput = true;
  /**
   * hydrates whenever validation is called
   * @var boolean
   */
  public $forceEntityHydrationFromInput = true;
  /**
   * The database table used by the model.
   * @var string
   */
  protected $table = 'phone_models';
}On 6/19/2014 1:35 PM, Scott Robertson
  wrote:

  How very odd, not sure why it would try and save it as a new
    row. 
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