In Laravel 5 migrations, the method $table->timestamps() creates the created_at and updated_at columns, but sometimes we just need one of the two. The issue is that Eloquent models by default use both and disabling one of the two can...

Eloquent models have a great feature called Mass Assignment Protection. This feature skips unwanted attributes when creating or updating a model. This is useful to pass an array of attributes to the model and filter only...