I've been struggling as to why my "create" method was not saving as a mass assignment.

Mytable::create([
            'title' => $request->get('title'),
            'content' => $request->get('content'),
        ]);

which was for awhile did not save, but only the 'updated_at', 'created_at' columns.

As it turned out, in model class (i.e. class Mytable extends Model{}), I had overwritten the constructor.

public function __construct()
{
$this->setTable('mytables');
}

However, after taken the child construct out, mass assign now works.

It seems if I want to override the construct function in my model, I must include this code:

public function __construct($attributes = [])
{
	$this->bootIfNotBooted();

    $this->syncOriginal();

    $this->fill($attributes);

	$this->setTable('mytables');
 }

Anyone know why is that?