How to get the status of a database entry in Laravel 5?

Question

Laravel

A couple of days ago I started learning Laravel 5 and ran into such a nuisance. For example, I create a database entry like this:

$post = new Post;
$post->title = $title;
$post->teaser = $teaser;
$post->body = $body;
$post->slug = $slug;
$post->image270 = $image270;
$post->enabled = 1;
$post->save();

But if the update ( Post::where('id', '=', $id)->update(...); ) returns a boolean value, which allows comparison operators to be used, this doesn't work in this example. How can I follow the next steps depending on whether the record was successfully created or not?

Answer 1

if ($post->save()){
    ...
}

Answer 2

And why check and what actions are you going to perform if it was not possible to create?
And have you tried to perform such actions when updating?