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32 title: "...Anywhere But Here",
33 artist: "The Ataris",
34 genre: "Punk Rock",
35 year: 1997
36 },
37 {
38 id: 6,
39 title: "...Is A Real Boy",
40 artist: "Say Anything",
41 genre: "Indie Rock",
42 year: 2006
43 }
44 ]
First
In circumstances where a collection of model instances will normally be returned, the first() fetch
method can be used to retrieve the first model instance stored within. It’s very useful if you would
rather that a query return a single instance, rather than a collection of model instances. Without a
constraint, first() will simply return the first row in the database table.
Here’s an example.
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