Disable Laravel's Eloquent timestamps

Question

I\'m in the process of converting one of our web applications from CodeIgniter to Laravel. However at this moment we don\'t want to add the updated_at / c

Answer 1

In case you want to remove timestamps from existing model, as mentioned before, place this in your Model:

public $timestamps = false;

Also create a migration with following code in the up() method and run it:

Schema::table('your_model_table', function (Blueprint $table) {
    $table->dropTimestamps();
});

You can use $table->timestamps() in your down() method to allow rolling back.

Answer 2

Eloquent Model:

class User extends Model    
{      
    protected $table = 'users';

    public $timestamps = false;
}

Or Simply try this

$users = new Users();
$users->timestamps = false;
$users->name = 'John Doe';
$users->email = 'johndoe@example.com';
$users->save();

Answer 3

Override the functions setUpdatedAt() and getUpdatedAtColumn() in your model

public function setUpdatedAt($value)
{
   //Do-nothing
}

public function getUpdatedAtColumn()
{
    //Do-nothing
}

Answer 4

If you only need to only to disable updating updated_at just add this method to your model.

public function setUpdatedAtAttribute($value)
{
    // to Disable updated_at
}

This will override the parent setUpdatedAtAttribute() method. created_at will work as usual. Same way you can write a method to disable updating created_at only.