Laravel 7 Soft Delete

Hello Devs,

In this tutorial, we are going to see example of laravel 7 soft delete.

Follow this step by step guide given below:

Create Post Migration Soft Delete

php artisan make:migration CreatePostsTable

/database/migrations/2020_01_02_095534_create_blogs_table.php

<?php

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

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

Create Post Model Soft Delete

/app/Blog.php

<?php
namespace App;

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

class Blog extends Model
{
    use SoftDeletes;

    protected $fillable = ['title','body'];

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

Get All Records

$data = Blog::get();

Delete one Record

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

Get All Records After Delete one Record

$data = Blog::withTrashed()->get();

I hope this example helps you.