##Excluding Timestamps from JSON
If you want to exclude timestamps from JSON output of role/permission pivots, you can extend the Role and Permission models into your own App namespace and mark the pivot as hidden:
protected $hidden = ['pivot'];
##Adding Timestamps to Pivots
If you want to add timestamps to your pivot tables, you can do it with a few steps:
- update the tables by calling
$table->timestamps(); in a migration
- extend the
Permission and Role models and add ->withTimestamps(); to the BelongsToMany relationshps for roles() and permissions()
- update your
User models (wherever you use the HasRoles or HasPermissions traits) by adding ->withTimestamps(); to the BelongsToMany relationships for roles() and permissions()