How to Get Last Record from Database in Laravel?

Hey Guys,

In this tutorial, I will show you how to get last record in laravel query. you will learn how to get last record in laravel. we will help you to give an example of how to get latest created record in laravel. In this article, we will implement a laravel get last record.

Sometimes we may require to get only last record of table in our project, we can get several way. We can fetch last record of database table using latest() or orderBy(). In bellow example you can see how i get then last record of table.

here is a simple example of get last record from tabel in laravel 6, laravel 7, laravel 8, laravel 9, laravel 10 and laravel 11 project.

Example 1: Laravel Query Get Last Record Using latest() & first()

I have "items" table and i want to get last record of "items" table. In first example i use latest() with first() because latest() will fetch only latest record according to created_at then first() will get only single record:

<?php
  
namespace App\Http\Controllers;
  
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use App\Models\Item;
  
class ItemController extends Controller
{
    /**
     * Display a listing of the resource.
     */
    public function index()
    {
        $last = Item::latest()->first();
  
        dd($last);
    }
}

Example 2: Laravel Query Get Last Record Using orderBy() & first()

Now, In this example i used orderBy() that belong to id, it will always return max id record:

<?php
  
namespace App\Http\Controllers;
  
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use App\Models\Item;
  
class ItemController extends Controller
{
    /**
     * Display a listing of the resource.
     */
    public function index()
    {
        $last = Item::orderBy('id', 'DESC')->first();
  
        dd($last);
    }
}

Example 3: Laravel Query Get Last Record Using latest('id') & first()

In this example latest() with argument, latest() will take created_at by default, if you want to give id then you can give argument as field name.

<?php
  
namespace App\Http\Controllers;
  
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use App\Models\Item;
  
class ItemController extends Controller
{
    /**
     * Display a listing of the resource.
     */
    public function index()
    {
        $last = Item::latest('id')->first();
  
        dd($last);
    }
}

But If you want to get last inserted id then you have to follow this link :

How to get last inserted id in laravel 5?.

I hope it can help you...