Laravel Unknown Column 'updated_at'

In the model, write the below code;

public $timestamps = false;

This would work.

Explanation : By default laravel will expect created_at & updated_at column in your table. By making it to false it will override the default setting.


Nice answer by Alex and Sameer, but maybe just additional info on why is necessary to put

public $timestamps = false;

Timestamps are nicely explained on official Laravel page:

By default, Eloquent expects created_at and updated_at columns to exist on your >tables. If you do not wish to have these columns automatically managed by >Eloquent, set the $timestamps property on your model to false.


Setting timestamps to false means you are going to lose both created_at and updated_at whereas you could set both of the keys in your model.

Case 1:

You have created_at column but not update_at you could simply set updated_at to false in your model

class ABC extends Model {

const UPDATED_AT = null;

Case 2:

You have both created_at and updated_at columns but with different column names

You could simply do:

class ABC extends Model {

const CREATED_AT = 'name_of_created_at_column';
const UPDATED_AT = 'name_of_updated_at_column';

Finally ignoring timestamps completely:

class ABC extends Model {

    public $timestamps = false;
}

Link to laravel documentation https://laravel.com/docs/9.x/eloquent#timestamps