Disable Laravel's Eloquent timestamps

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!

Example:

<?phpnamespace App;use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;class Post extends Model{    public $timestamps = false;    //}

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();

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

<?phpnamespace 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:

<?phpnamespace 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).