Laravel - custom timestamp column names

Question

I am migrating a site from codeigniter to Laravel.

For a legacy table reports, some existing columns created_at and updated_at are named date_created and date_modified respectively.

I wish to tell my eloquent Report model about these custom timestamp column names.

The documentation only provide reference to turning timestamps off or providing custom timestamp formats.

I was looking for it recently but have not found anything. They are tied quite deeply to the system, many methods use them as they are. What about just renaming the fields (and eventually making some custom accessor method to them, if necessary)? — peter.babic

Arun Kumar Arun Kumar · Accepted Answer · 2014-07-29T08:18:14

In model your can define constants like this to change the column names

class BaseModel extends Eloquent {
    const CREATED_AT = 'date_created';
    const UPDATED_AT = 'date_modified';
}

or use you can use something like this Managing Timestamps