Create a Insert... Select statement in Laravel

There is no way of doing this in one query (unless you are on Laravel 5.7), however I came across the same issue and wanted to make sure I can keep using a certain select I build with the QueryBuilder.

So what you could do, to keep things half what clean and to reuse functionality which has built a select statement before, is this:

/**
 * Wherever your Select may come from
 **/
$select = User::where(...)
                  ->where(...)
                  ->whereIn(...)
                  ->select(array('email','moneyOwing'));
/**
 * get the binding parameters
 **/ 
$bindings = $select->getBindings();
/**
 * now go down to the "Network Layer"
 * and do a hard coded select
 */
 $insertQuery = 'INSERT into user_debt_collection (email,dinero) '
                . $select->toSql();
    
 \DB::insert($insertQuery, $bindings);

UPDATE Laravel 5.7

As of Laravel 5.7.17 you can use ->insertUsing(). See here for details. Thank you @Soulriser for pointing this out.

So above query would look like this:

DB::table('user_debt_collection')->insertUsing(['email','dinero'], $select);

You can use:

DB::insert("insert into contacts(contact_id,contact_type,account_id,created_at,updated_at) select f.id,'App\\Friend',f.account_id,f.created_at,f.updated_at from friends as f where f.id=?",[16]);

I used DB::statement("...");

DB::statement("INSERT INTO table (SELECT)");