Mass (bulk) insert or update on duplicate for Laravel 4/5

massInsertOrUpdate.php

/**
* Mass (bulk) insert or update on duplicate for Laravel 4/5
* 
* insertOrUpdate([
*   ['id'=>1,'value'=>10],
*   ['id'=>2,'value'=>60]
* ]);
* 
*
* @param array $rows
*/
function insertOrUpdate(array $rows){
        $table = \DB::getTablePrefix().with(new self)->getTable();
        
        
        $first = reset($rows);
        
        $columns = implode( ',',
            array_map( function( $value ) { return "$value"; } , array_keys($first) )
        );
        
        $values = implode( ',', array_map( function( $row ) {
                return '('.implode( ',',
                    array_map( function( $value ) { return '"'.str_replace('"', '""', $value).'"'; } , $row )
                ).')';
            } , $rows )
        );
        
        $updates = implode( ',',
            array_map( function( $value ) { return "$value = VALUES($value)"; } , array_keys($first) )
        );
        
        $sql = "INSERT INTO {$table}({$columns}) VALUES {$values} ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE {$updates}";
        
        return \DB::statement( $sql );
}

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Why is this not in Laravel as default?! 👍 💯
Works perfectly, love it. Saved me many queries!

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+1 this should be in laravel by default

This still is working till today.. super thanks 👍 💯

Work fine, I used this to migrate millions rows.
I just add this to handle null value (which should not be replace by empty string) :
return ($value !== '' && $value !== null) ? '"'.str_replace('"', '""', $value).'"' : 'null';

This was really helpful. I'll add for anyone needing it - if you want to omit a "created_at" timestamp you can inject this right before the $updates variable:

if(isset($first['created_at'])) { unset($first['created_at']); }

This will keep the created date from being updated.

This is not firing model events. It's a bad code when using model events and observers.

It also doesn't protect against SQL injection

I need help creating something similar for a PHP form. I have tried a few ways but I am not getting it to work. Would appreciate it if anyone here would be willing to help me out.

It is better to use \DB::connection()->getPdo()->quote($value) instead of str_replace because of the problem when values contain slashes. Just replace the corresponding code with this:

...
        $values = implode( ',', array_map( function( $row ) {
            return '('.implode( ',',
                array_map( function( $value ) { return \DB::connection()->getPdo()->quote($value); } , $row )
            ).')';
        } , $rows )
        );
...

where are you guys putting this code! In controller or method!

@rassemdev it would be in your specific model file. I would make it a trait to be able to reuse it on other models or implement it on Model.php (all models extends this one)

@rassemdev it would be in your specific model file. I would make it a trait to be able to reuse it on other models or implement it on Model.php (all models extends this one)

Yeah, but the class Model is part of a vendor package. Do not update dependencies that are not your own because they might change in the future. Create a trait and use it in the models that need it, it is quite possible that not all of them will use this functionality.

@rassemdev it would be in your specific model file. I would make it a trait to be able to reuse it on other models or implement it on Model.php (all models extends this one)

you can't create it as a trait to your models, because it can work only with single object. But must work with bunch of them. So in this case trait a good idea for repositories, but not for models.

This code is totally vulnerable to SQL injection attacks.

does this work without composite keys ? I want to mass update but it requires me 7 composite keys to detect duplicate due to extremely poor constructed data from amazon api.