Update Extra Columns When You Increment

Laravel ships with a convenient way to increment a value using the increment method:

use App\Models\User;

User::first()->increment('votes');

Occasionally, you need to pass a second argument that may be provided to specify the amount by which the column should be incremented:

use App\Models\User;

User::first()->increment('votes', 3);

In addition, if you need to update a column after you have incremented the value, you could do this:

use App\Models\User;

$user = User::first();

$user->increment('votes', 3);
$user->update(['name' => 'Mahmoud Ramadan']);

But Laravel provides a graceful way by passing the third argument to that method:

use App\Models\User;

User::first()->increment('votes', extra: ['name' => 'Mahmoud Ramadan']);

Previously we used the named argument to pass the third parameter without the need to pass the second one.