cakephp - Save without updating the 'modified' field -

i'm working on new project using cakephp 3.0.

i'm using authentication component , whenever user logs in, i'm updating value of field visited.

userscontroller:

public function login() {      if ($this->request->is('post')) {          $user = $this->auth->identify();          if ($user) {              $this->auth->setuser($user);              $this->users->setvisited($user['id']);              return $this->redirect($this->auth->redirecturl());          }      $this->flash->error('your username or password incorrect.');      }  } 

userstable:

public function setvisited($id) {      $user = $this->findbyid($id)->first();      $user->visited = time::now();      if($this->save($user)) {          return true;      }      return false;  } 

now, save without updating value of field modified. i've tried approach used in previous versions of cake:

$user->modified = false; 

it doesn't work though, throwing , error: call member function format() on non-object because datetime fields treated objects guess.

any appreciated,

paul

you have couple ways of doing this. want avoid calling callbacks when saving entity. cases have updateall

$this->updateall(['visited' => time::now()], ['id' => $id]); 

you can same before, need disable timestamp behavior before saving:

$this->behaviors()->unload('timestamp'); 

i recommend using updateall