I recently worked on a blog application using Laravel 5.4 on my localhost and everything was working fine. However, when I uploaded my application on a remote server on the internet, the updated_at field on every post kept updating automatically every day.
The same code when run on my local machine works fine and the updated_at field is only updated when the post is updated. I am guessing that the problem is at the level of the database configuration but I have no idea how to fix that.
The source code: migrations
Schema::create('posts', function (Blueprint $table) {
$table->increments('id');
$table->string('title');
$table->string('featured_image');
$table->string('slug')->unique();
$table->text('body');
$table->boolean('published')->default(false);
$table->unsignedInteger('user_id');
$table->integer('views')->default(0);
$table->timestamps();
$table->softDeletes();
$table->foreign('user_id')->references('id')->on('users');
});
and I have this in my model Post.php:
protected $dates = ['created_at', 'updated_at', 'deleted_at'];
I am only adding the source code for the benefit of the doubt because it is the same source code that runs on my localhost and produces the desired result.
It is because your views field get updated for each view by users.
You can disable updating timestamp fields before increasing view :
$obj->timestamps = false;
$obj->views += 1;
$obj->save();