Timestamps management in Laravel - Interactive Code Practice

Practice - 5 Tasks

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easy

Complete the code to enable automatic timestamps in a Laravel model.

Laravel

class Post extends Model {
    public $[1] = true;
}

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AsoftDeletes

Btimestamps

Cfillable

Dguarded

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Common Mistakes

Using 'softDeletes' instead of 'timestamps'.

Forgetting to set the property as public.

Confusing 'fillable' with timestamp management.

Setting public $timestamps = true; in a Laravel model enables automatic management of created_at and updated_at timestamps.

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medium

Complete the code to disable timestamps in a Laravel model.

Laravel

class Comment extends Model {
    public $[1] = false;
}

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Atimestamps

Bhidden

CsoftDeletes

Dincrementing

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Common Mistakes

Using 'softDeletes' instead of 'timestamps'.

Setting the property to true instead of false.

Confusing 'incrementing' with timestamp control.

Setting public $timestamps = false; disables automatic timestamp management in Laravel models.

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hard

Fix the error in the code to correctly set a custom timestamp column name.

Laravel

class User extends Model {
    const CREATED_AT = '[1]';
}

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Acreated_at

BcreatedAt

CcreatedAtAt

Dcreate_at

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Common Mistakes

Using camelCase instead of snake_case.

Misspelling the column name.

Adding extra letters or missing underscores.

The default Laravel timestamp column is created_at. To customize it, set const CREATED_AT = 'created_at'; or your custom column name.

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hard

Fill both blanks to customize the timestamp column names for created and updated times.

Laravel

class Article extends Model {
    const CREATED_AT = '[1]';
    const UPDATED_AT = '[2]';
}

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Acreated_on

Bupdated_on

Cupdated_at

Dcreated_at

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Common Mistakes

Mixing up created and updated constants.

Using camelCase instead of snake_case.

Not matching the database column names exactly.

To customize timestamp columns, set CREATED_AT and UPDATED_AT constants to your desired column names like created_on and updated_on.

5fill in blank

hard

Fill all three blanks to create a model that disables timestamps and sets a custom date format.

Laravel

class Event extends Model {
    public $[1] = [2];
    protected $dateFormat = '[3]';
}

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Atimestamps

Bfalse

CY-m-d H:i:s

Dtrue

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Common Mistakes

Setting timestamps to true instead of false.

Using an invalid date format string.

Confusing public and protected visibility.

To disable timestamps, set public $timestamps = false;. To customize the date format, set protected $dateFormat to a valid PHP date format string like Y-m-d H:i:s.