Laravel Eloquent - Inserting multiple objects at once

Question

I'm creating multiple (sometimes hundreds, sometimes thousands) Eloquent objects by reading a CSV file.

Take this loop for instance:

$cities = [];
while ($city = readNextCity()) {
  $cities[] = $city;
}
// ok how do I save all $cities without calling $city->save() on each?

We know that inserting multiple rows in one query is much more efficient than inserting 1 row per query. However, is there a way to insert multiple eloquent objects at once so that they get translated to one query? (If not, I don't mind writing it, but I don't want to duplicate efforts).

Answer 1

I think you can use the query builder for this.

$cities = array();
$i=0;
while ($city = readNextCity()) {
  $cities[$i++] = array('city' => $city);
}

DB::table('city')->insert($cities);

Hope this will help.