In this short snippet, you will learn how to update a Model without touching/chancing the timestamps (created_at and updated_at) columns.
To prevent the "timestamps" from updating, you can specify the timestamps value to "false" when saving the model. Imagine you have a post model and you want to update the "title" of the record. By default, it will update the "updated_at" column to the time when the record is saved.
Update Model Without Updating Timestamps
To prevent the "timestamps" from updating, you can specify the timestamps value to "false" when saving the model. Imagine you have a post model and you want to update the "title" of the record. By default, it will update the "updated_at" column to the time when the record is saved.
<?php $post = Post::first(); $post->title = "Post Title 1 Updated"; $post->timestamps = false; $post->save();
If you do prefer to use the "update()" method then the code will be as follows.
$post = Post::first();
$post->save([
'title' => "Post Title 1 Updated",
'timestamps' => false
]);Update Multiple Model Without Updating Timestamps
To update multiple models without updating their timestamps then you can make use of the "where" statement.
<?php
Post::query()
->whereIn('id', [1, 2, 3])->update([
'title' => 'Post 1, 2, 3 have the same title',
'timestamps' => false
]);This goes the sample for when using the "DB" facade.
<?php
DB::table('posts')->... // your conditions hereSpecify For The Whole Model
To prevent the Model timestamp from being updated, you can also specify the $timestamps property to false for any of your Eloquent model classes. This will disable the timestamps for the particular model so that you won't have to specify each update manually.
<?php
namespace App\Models;
class Post extends Model {
public $timestamps = false; // put this code
}
