How to delete a single record in Laravel 5?

Question

Using Laravel 5 I m trying to delete a single record within a controller, here is my code:

public function destroy($id)
{
     $employee = Employee::find($id);
     $employee->delete();
     return Redirect::route('noorsi.employee.index');
}

My view page code is:

<td><a href="employee/{{$employee->id}}/destroy" class="btn btn-default">Delete</a></td>

My route is:

Route::delete(employee.'/{id}', array('as' => 'noorsi.employee.destroy','uses' => Employeecontroller.'@destroy'));

That did not work.

How do I fix the implementation ?

Answer 1

From the official Laravel 5 documentation:

Delete an existing Model

$user = User::find(1);
$user->delete();

Deleting An Existing Model By Key

User::destroy(1);
User::destroy([1, 2, 3]);
User::destroy(1, 2, 3);

In every cases, the number between brackets represents the object ID, but you may also run a delete query on a set of models:

$affectedRows = User::where('votes', '>', 100)->delete();

http://laravel.com/docs/5.0/eloquent#insert-update-delete

Answer 2

So the Laravel's way of deleting using the destroy function is

<form action="{{ url('employee' , $employee->id ) }}" method="POST">
    {{ csrf_field() }}
    {{ method_field('DELETE') }}
    <button>Delete Employee</button>
</form>

You can find an example here http://laravel.com/docs/5.1/quickstart-intermediate#adding-the-delete-button And your route should look something like this

Route::delete('employee/{id}', array('as' => 'employee.destroy','uses' => 'Employeecontroller@destroy'));

It works with eg:Route::resource('employee', 'EmployeeController'); and it should also work with how you set up your destroy route.