Disable touches on firstOrCreate (laravel 5.5)

To save a model without touching pass false to save method:

$model = new Model;

$model->save(['touch' => false]);

Of course setTouchedRelations will work as well:

$model = new Model;
... // do what you need

$model->setTouchedRelations([]);
$model->save();

However you seem to want to use the current available values in the database, you could do something like this

$model->firstOrCreate(
    [
        'id' => 1
    ],
    [
        'updated' => DB::raw('updated_at'),
    ]
);

This basically selects the same previous value and inserts that value again.

I would personally go for the first option which is more readable and understandable ;)

@bobbybouwmann , I ended up using your second suggestion :

$model = new Model;
... // do what you need

$model->setTouchedRelations([]);
$model->save(); 

Thank you very much :D

No problem ;)