Bulk Insertion in Laravel using eloquent ORM

Question

You can just use Eloquent::insert().

For example:

$data = array(
    array('name'=>'Coder 1', 'rep'=>'4096'),
    array('name'=>'Coder 2', 'rep'=>'2048'),
    //...
);

Coder::insert($data);

We can update GTF answer to update timestamps easily

$data = array(
    array(
        'name'=>'Coder 1', 'rep'=>'4096',
        'created_at'=>date('Y-m-d H:i:s'),
        'modified_at'=> date('Y-m-d H:i:s')
       ),
    array(
         'name'=>'Coder 2', 'rep'=>'2048',
         'created_at'=>date('Y-m-d H:i:s'),
         'modified_at'=> date('Y-m-d H:i:s')
       ),
    //...
);

Coder::insert($data);

Update: to simplify the date we can use carbon as @Pedro Moreira suggested

$now = Carbon::now('utc')->toDateTimeString();
$data = array(
    array(
        'name'=>'Coder 1', 'rep'=>'4096',
        'created_at'=> $now,
        'modified_at'=> $now
       ),
    array(
         'name'=>'Coder 2', 'rep'=>'2048',
         'created_at'=> $now,
         'modified_at'=> $now
       ),
    //...
);

Coder::insert($data);

UPDATE2: for laravel 5 , use updated_at instead of modified_at

$now = Carbon::now('utc')->toDateTimeString();
$data = array(
    array(
        'name'=>'Coder 1', 'rep'=>'4096',
        'created_at'=> $now,
        'updated_at'=> $now
       ),
    array(
         'name'=>'Coder 2', 'rep'=>'2048',
         'created_at'=> $now,
         'updated_at'=> $now
       ),
    //...
);

Coder::insert($data);

This is how you do it in more Eloquent way,

    $allintests = [];
    foreach($intersts as $item){ //$intersts array contains input data
        $intestcat = new User_Category();
        $intestcat->memberid = $item->memberid;
        $intestcat->catid= $item->catid;
        $allintests[] = $intestcat->attributesToArray();
    }
    User_Category::insert($allintests);

To whoever is reading this, check out createMany() method.

/**
 * Create a Collection of new instances of the related model.
 *
 * @param  array  $records
 * @return \Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Collection
 */
public function createMany(array $records)
{
    $instances = $this->related->newCollection();

    foreach ($records as $record) {
        $instances->push($this->create($record));
    }

    return $instances;
}

I searched many times for it, finally used custom timestamps like below:

$now = Carbon::now()->toDateTimeString();
Model::insert([
    ['name'=>'Foo', 'created_at'=>$now, 'updated_at'=>$now],
    ['name'=>'Bar', 'created_at'=>$now, 'updated_at'=>$now],
    ['name'=>'Baz', 'created_at'=>$now, 'updated_at'=>$now],
    ..................................
]);

Eloquent::insert is the proper solution but it wont update the timestamps, so you can do something like below

 $json_array=array_map(function ($a) { 
                        return array_merge($a,['created_at'=> 
                                            Carbon::now(),'updated_at'=> Carbon::now()]
                                           ); 
                                     }, $json_array); 
 Model::insert($json_array);

The idea is to add created_at and updated_at on whole array before doing insert