How to use soft delete in Laravel?

• By: TRICKPROF
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• Category: Laravel
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• Modified :18 Jan 2022

commonly, we remove rows from the database when deleting records from the site.

But laravel introduces SoftDeletes

in models that way we can't remove it from the database but if remove the record from the front side then it doesn't show the record on the front. So we can retrieve records from the database if we remove the wrong row.

How to work soft delete,

laravel add deleted_at column on the table that is default will be null and when we remove then it will place current timestamp,

Laravel Model always fetches that record has only deleted_at = null.

So, how to use in our project, so first when you create table migration then you have to add softDeletes(). you can see as bellow example of migration.

Migration Example:

use Illuminate\Database\Schema\Blueprint;
use Illuminate\Database\Migrations\Migration;


class CreateBlogsTable extends Migration
{
    /**
     * Run the migrations.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function up()
    {
        Schema::create('blogs', function(Blueprint $table) {
            $table->increments('id');
            $table->string('title');
            $table->text('description');
            $table->softDeletes();
            $table->timestamps();
        });
    }


    /**
     * Reverse the migrations.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function down()
    {
        Schema::drop("blogs");
    }
}

Ok, now you can find the deleted_at column in your items table and you have also model that should look like as bellow:

namespace App;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\SoftDeletes;

class Item extends Model
{
    use SoftDeletes;

    public $fillable = ['title','description'];

    /**
     * The attributes that should be mutated to dates.
     *
     * @var array
     */
    protected $dates = ['deleted_at'];
}

Now, you can use the Item model as normally as you use before, you get all records like this way.

$data = Item::get();

It will return all records that has deleted_at = null only and you can also remove records like this way:

$data = Item::find(1)->delete();

You can check and  use it

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