How to control data repeatation in Laravel?

Question

I have a quiz. The quiz has 10 questions. First time I saved 7 questions of the quiz using the below code.In the second case I wanted to save the quiz questions again. But in this case the data is being duplicated. I want the question that have been saved once not to be saved in the second time.

     foreach($request->input('questions', []) as $key => $question){
            QuizSessionAnswer::create([
                'session_id'=> $sessionId,
                'question_id'=> $question,
                'selected_choice_id'=> $request->input('choice.'.$question),
                'created_by_id'=> auth()->user()->id,
            ]);
        }

How can I solve the problem?

Answer 1

You can one of two

1. try updateOrCreate method, you can review Laravel Reference here.
2. you need to identify in your "view form" if you will create a QUIZ questions (send to a quiz.create route) or edit your questions (send to a quiz.edit route)