Laravel - How to disable created_at and updated_at timestamps from Model?

As we know, we create new record in table using model then created_at and updated_at column value automatic set current timestamps. But sometime you require to prevent set timestamp of created_at and updated_at column, Maybe you don't have. So in this post we will learn how to make disabled timestamps value from model in laravel 6, laravel 7, laravel 8 and laravel 9 project too.

So, there are two way to create disable created_at and updated_at timestamps in laravel 5 application. So first you can simply "$timestamps" equals to false in your model. So you can do it as simple bellow example of Item model.

app/Item.php

<?php

namespace App;

use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;

class Item extends Model
{
    protected $fillable = ['title','content'];

    public $timestamps = false;
}

Now, we can also use another way to update timestamps value of created_at and update_at. In this bellow example you can modify value of created_at and updated_at column value as bellow example:

app/Item.php

<?php

namespace App;

use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;

class Item extends Model
{
    protected $fillable = ['title','content'];

    public function setUpdatedAt($value)
    {
      return NULL;
    }

    public function setCreatedAt($value)
    {
      return NULL;
    }
}

I hope it can help you...