Laravel Eloquent Increments and Decrements value

Last updated on June 11, 2018

In this post, I would like to show you the hidden and useful functions of Laravel’s Eloquent ORM to Increment and Decrement value of the fields in the database column. In my recent project, I used increment() and decrement() methods to increase and decrease the numbers respectively.

How to use increment() and decrement()

Question::find($QuestionID)->increment('view_count'); // +1
Question::find($QuestionID)->decrement('view_count'); // -1

Question::find($QuestionID)->increment('view_count', 10); // +10
Question::find($QuestionID)->decrement('view_count',10); // -10