Duplicate or Clone a database record with Laravel

Cloning or Duplicate a database record a headache? not anymore with Laravel.

Laravel provides a very awesome function for this called replicate which will take an Eloquent model and make a copy so you can then make changes and save it.

Here’s an example of how you might use this.
Let’s pretend you have a blog post and you want to make a copy of it to publish again. First grab the original model:

$post = Post::find(1); 

Next, call the replicate method on it:

$newPost = $post->replicate();

Now, you can make any changes you need to the model and then resave it.

$newPost->created_at = Carbon::now();
$newPost->save();

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All together it would look like this:

$post = Post::find(1);
$newPost = $post->replicate();
$newPost->created_at = Carbon::now();
$newPost->save();