Disable Laravel's Eloquent timestamps

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projectxmatt picture projectxmatt · Nov 12, 2013 · Viewed 249.6k times · Source

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 / created_at fields to all of our tables as we have a logging class that does all this in more depth for us already.

I'm aware I can set $timestamps = false; in:

Vendor\laravel\framework\src\illuminate\Datebase\Eloquent\Model.php

However I'd rather not change a core file for Laravel, or have everyone of my models have that at the top. Is there any way to disable this elsewhere for all models?

Answer

bgallagh3r picture bgallagh3r · Nov 12, 2013

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.

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