I recently started using Eloquent. When I used PHP Active Record, there was a nice function that checked if a record was loaded from the database or is a new instance. Is there something similar in Eloquent that I could use? By new I mean: $article = new Article; whereas one from the database would be $article = Article::find(1);
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