在Laravel 5.2中，我会让它尽可能的干净:

public function saveContact(Request $request, Contact $contact)
{
   $create = $contact->create($request->all());
   return response()->json($create->id,  201);
}

你可以这样做:

$result=app('db')->insert("INSERT INTO table...");

$lastInsertId=app('db')->getPdo()->lastInsertId();

For anyone who also likes how Jeffrey Way uses Model::create() in his Laracasts 5 tutorials, where he just sends the Request straight into the database without explicitly setting each field in the controller, and using the model's $fillable for mass assignment (very important, for anyone new and using this way): I read a lot of people using insertGetId() but unfortunately this does not respect the $fillable whitelist so you'll get errors with it trying to insert _token and anything that isn't a field in the database, end up setting things you want to filter, etc. That bummed me out, because I want to use mass assignment and overall write less code when possible. Fortunately Eloquent's create method just wraps the save method (what @xdazz cited above), so you can still pull the last created ID...

public function store() {

    $input = Request::all();
    $id = Company::create($input)->id;

    return redirect('company/'.$id);
}

下面是我们如何在Laravel 4中获得最后一个插入id

public function store()
{
    $input = Input::all();

    $validation = Validator::make($input, user::$rules);

    if ($validation->passes())
    {

     $user= $this->user->create(array(
            'name'              => Input::get('name'),
            'email'             => Input::get('email'),
            'password'          => Hash::make(Input::get('password')),
        ));
        $lastInsertedId= $user->id; //get last inserted record's user id value
        $userId= array('user_id'=>$lastInsertedId); //put this value equal to datatable column name where it will be saved
        $user->update($userId); //update newly created record by storing the value of last inserted id
            return Redirect::route('users.index');
        }
    return Redirect::route('users.create')->withInput()->withErrors($validation)->with('message', 'There were validation errors.');
    }

获取数据库中最后插入的id 你可以使用

$data = new YourModelName;
$data->name = 'Some Value';
$data->email = 'abc@mail.com';
$data->save();
$lastInsertedId = $data->id;

这里$lastInsertedId会给你最后插入的自动增量id。

在laravel 5中:你可以这样做:

use App\Http\Requests\UserStoreRequest;
class UserController extends Controller {
    private $user;
    public function  __construct( User $user )
    {
        $this->user = $user;
    }
    public function store( UserStoreRequest $request )
    {
       $user= $this->user->create([
            'name'              => $request['name'],
            'email'             => $request['email'],
            'password'          => Hash::make($request['password'])
        ]);
        $lastInsertedId= $user->id;
    }
}