How to check in Laravel, if a table is completly empty, BEFORE do anything

Question

I wanna quest if there is a method to check if one model table is empty, before doing anything. I have inside my seeder class a method to generate fake entries inside the database. But before i call this method, i wanna be sure that nothing inside my 'company' table. The thing is most people give example like: Company::where(...). I don't wanna use a where, because i don't wanna find anything specific inside the table. I only wanna return a null or a zero without error to handle the value and call after this my insert method for seeding the database. Thank you very much

Answer 1

you can do like that without any where condition

$count = \DB::table('company')->count();
if($count == 0) {
   //add fake data...
}else {
  //data already there no need to add fake data
}