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

Simply place this line in your Model:

public $timestamps = false;

And that's it!

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Example:

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To disable timestamps for one operation (e.g. in a controller):

$post->content = 'Your content'; 
$post->timestamps = false; // Will not modify the timestamps on save
$post->save();

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To disable timestamps for all of your Models, create a new BaseModel file:

Then extend each one of your Models with the BaseModel, like so: