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Quick Tip

Default Timestamp

While creating migrations, you can use timestamp() column type with option useCurrent() and useCurrentOnUpdate(), it will set CURRENT_TIMESTAMP as default value.

$table->timestamp('created_at')->useCurrent();
$table->timestamp('updated_at')->useCurrentOnUpdate();

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