Change name of Laravel's created_at and updated_at

Question

Can I map Laravel\'s timestamps from:

created_at to post_date and post_date_gmt?

updated_at to post

Answer 1

If you look into the source of the Eloquent class

https://github.com/illuminate/database/blob/4.2/Eloquent/Model.php#L223-L235

You should be able to change these column names pretty easily by overriding those constants.

As for the _gmt version of those timestamps, you might want to look into events. Here is a good start

http://driesvints.com/blog/using-laravel-4-model-events