Change timestamps column names of Eloquent

/** * app/models/BaseModel.php **/ class BaseModel extends Eloquent { const CREATED_AT = 'createdAt'; const UPDATED_AT = 'updatedAt'; const DELETED_AT = 'deletedAt'; } /** * app/models/MySoftDeleTrait.php * (you can save this file where you like) **/ use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\SoftDeletingTrait; use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\SoftDeletingScope; trait MySoftDeleteTrait { use SoftDeletingTrait; /** * Boot the soft deleting trait for a model. * * @return void */ public static function bootMySoftDeleteTrait() { static::addGlobalScope(new SoftDeletingScope); } /** * Get the name of the "deleted at" column. * * @return string */ public function getDeletedAtColumn() { return static::DELETED_AT; } } /** * app/models/User.php * **/ use \MySoftDeleteTrait; class User extends BaseModel { public $timestamps = true; protected $dates = ['deletedAt']; use MySoftDeleteTrait; /** * ... etc ... **/ }

reference : http://laravel-tricks.com/tricks/change-timestamps-column-names