How to perform a delete operation on a Model?

Question

Coming from a Ruby on Rails experience where you load up the rails console to delete a user or all users. I am new to Laravel 5 and I am looking for something similar to delete a user already in the sqlite3 database.

I see where people are talking about User::find(1)->delete(); to delete a user but where to you put that and run in? Is there a console to perform a delete task in? I would like to know how to delete a user without dropping the table. I do not want to soft delete.

Answer 1

You can put this code for example in controller.

You can use

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

if you don't use SoftDeletingTrait trait or

$user = User::find($id);    
$user->forceDelete();

if you do, and you want to really remove user from database, not just hide it from results.

More you can read at Laravel page

Answer 2

in Laravel 5 you can use the destroy method.

$user->destroy($id);

and, sure, you have a command line to do so.

$ php artisan tinker

and you can run for example

>> $var = new App\User;
>> $user= $user->find($id);
>> $user->destroy();