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title: 'You can use valueOrFail() to fetch a value from the database, or abort the request if the queried record does not exist'
tweet_id: '1456649612966576129'
thread_slug: weekly-thread-2021-44
author_username: pascalbaljet
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created_at: 2021-11-05T15:48:25+00:00
slug: you-can-use-valueorfail-to-fetch-a-value-from-the-database-or-abort-the-request-if-the-queried-record-does-not-exist
---
In the next blog posts, I'll cover Database and Eloquent improvements and new features in #Laravel 8.x. 

Here's a great little feature that got added in v8.60 🔥

PR: https://github.com/laravel/framework/pull/38707

Yesterday's post about Collections: https://protone.media/en/blog/a-look-at-new-features-and-improvements-since-the-original-laravel-80-release-collections

#PHP #webdev #opensource