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_modified and post_modified_gmt?

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I'm migrating a Wordpress application to Laravel.

I'm accessing a copy of the Wordpress database using Laravel. The live version of the database is still in use so I don't want to change the schema.

The Posts table has post_date, post_date_gmt, post_modified and post_modified_gmt, but Laravel is expecting created_at and updated_at.

Is there anyway to change the column names that Laravel looks for?

I'd like Laravel to update the timestamps of all the columns that are already there.

Answer 1

The accepted answer may cause problems with updating timestamps unfortunately.

You'd better override consts on your model:

const CREATED_AT = 'post_date'; const UPDATED_AT = 'post_modified'; 

then methods getCreatedAtColumn and getUpdatedAtColumn will return post_date and post_modified respectively, but won't do any harm.

For the other columns you need use events like @Oni suggested.