How to drop softDeletes from a table in a migration

Question

I'm adding the soft delete columns to my table in a migration:

public function up() {     Schema::table("users", function ($table) {         $table->softDeletes();     }); } 

But, how can I remove these in my down() function, if I roll back the migration? Is there a built-in method to do this, or do I just manually delete the columns that get added?

Answer 1

On your migration class:

public function down() {     Schema::table("users", function ($table) {         $table->dropSoftDeletes();     }); } 

Illuminate\Database\Schema\Blueprint.php:

public function dropSoftDeletes() {     $this->dropColumn('deleted_at'); } 

Since Laravel 5.5, this information can be found in the documentation.