/**
* Insert a new record into the database.
*
* @param array $values Values to insert
*
* @return bool
*/
public function insert(array $values)
{
// Since every insert gets treated like a batch insert, we will make sure the
// bindings are structured in a way that is convenient for building these
// inserts statements by verifying the elements are actually an array.
if (!is_array(reset($values))) {
$values = array($values);
}
$bindings = array();
// We'll treat every insert like a batch insert so we can easily insert each
// of the records into the database consistently. This will make it much
// easier on the grammars to just handle one type of record insertion.
foreach ($values as $record) {
$bindings = array_merge($bindings, array_values($record));
}
$sql = $this->grammar->compileInsert($this, $values);
// Once we have compiled the insert statement's SQL we can execute it on the
// connection and return a result as a boolean success indicator as that
// is the same type of result returned by the raw connection instance.
$bindings = $this->cleanBindings($bindings);
return $this->connection->insert($sql, $bindings);
}
