Eloquent - Strange behavior on save - mysql

Question

I'm saving a record and then returning the values from database and Eloquent is not returning all of the values.
Example:
If I have a MySQL table called names like this:
| ID | Date | Name |
|----------------------------|-------------------------------------|--------------|
| AUTO INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY | TIMESTAMP DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP | VARCHAR(100) |
and I have an eloquent model called Names
and then I save and return like this:
function save($sName) {
$oName = new Names();
$oName->Name = $sName;
$oName->save();
$oReturn = new stdClass();
$oReturn->Name = $oName->Name;
$oReturn->Date = $oName->Date;
return $oReturn;
}
It returns:
echo json_encode(save("Test")); // {"Name": "Test", "Date": null}
Is this normal?

Answer 1

Yes that is normal. Eloquent doesn't save and then do another query to select all the data for the record it just inserted.

Answer 2

You can manually set field date, just add this code into your mode:
public static function boot()
{
static::creating(function ($model) {
$model->date = date('Y-m-d H:i:s');
});
}
You will avoid second DB request for selecting inserted item. Just be carefull with timezones when you're using date function.
Also you can use getAttributes() Eloquent method and get rid of stdClass:
function save($sName)
{
$oName = new Names();
$oName->Name = $sName;
$oName->save();
return $oName->getAttributes();
}