Disable Laravel's Eloquent timestamps

Question

You either have to declare public $timestamps = false; in every model, or create a BaseModel, define it there, and have all your models extend it instead of eloquent. Just bare in mind pivot tables MUST have timestamps if you're using Eloquent.

Update: Note that timestamps are no longer REQUIRED in pivot tables after Laravel v3.

Update: You can also disable timestamps by removing $table->timestamps() from your migration.

Simply place this line in your Model:

public $timestamps = false;

And that's it!

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Example:

<?php

namespace App;

use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;

class Post extends Model
{
    public $timestamps = false;

    //
}

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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:

<?php

namespace App;

use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;

class BaseModel extends Model
{
    public $timestamps = false;

    //
}

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

<?php

namespace App;

class Post extends BaseModel
{
    //
}

If you are using 5.5.x:

const UPDATED_AT = null;

And for 'created_at' field, you can use:

const CREATED_AT = null;

Make sure you are on the newest version. (This was broken in Laravel 5.5.0 and fixed again in 5.5.5).

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.

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.

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 = '[email protected]';
$users->save();

just declare the public timestamps variable in your Model to false and everything will work great.

public $timestamps = false;