Laravel Soft Delete posts

Question

in our project we must be use soft delete for each posts. in laravel document i think we can only use this feature for tables.

can we use that for posts on table such as

$id = Contents::find($id); $id->softDeletes(); 

Answer 1

Updated Version (Version 5.0 & Later):

use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model; use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\SoftDeletes;  class Post extends Model {      use SoftDeletes;      protected $table = 'posts';      // ... } 

When soft deleting a model, it is not actually removed from your database. Instead, a deleted_at timestamp is set on the record. To enable soft deletes for a model, specify the softDelete property on the model (Documentation).

For (Version 4.2):

use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\SoftDeletingTrait; // <-- This is required  class Post extends Eloquent {      use SoftDeletingTrait;      protected $table = 'posts';      // ... } 

Prior to Version 4.2 (But not 4.2 & Later)

For example (Using a posts table and Post model):

class Post extends Eloquent {      protected $table = 'posts';     protected $softDelete = true;          // ... } 

To add a deleted_at column to your table, you may use the softDeletes method from a migration:

For example (Migration class' up method for posts table) :

/**  * Run the migrations.  *  * @return void  */ public function up() {     Schema::create('posts', function(Blueprint $table)     {         $table->increments('id');         // more fields         $table->softDeletes(); // <-- This will add a deleted_at field         $table->timeStamps();     }); } 

Now, when you call the delete method on the model, the deleted_at column will be set to the current timestamp. When querying a model that uses soft deletes, the "deleted" models will not be included in query results. To soft delete a model you may use:

$model = Contents::find( $id ); $model->delete(); 

Deleted (soft) models are identified by the timestamp and if deleted_at field is NULL then it's not deleted and using the restore method actually makes the deleted_at field NULL. To permanently delete a model you may use forceDelete method.

Answer 2

You actually do the normal delete. But on the model you specify that its a softdelete model.

So on your model add the code:

class Contents extends Eloquent {      use SoftDeletingTrait;      protected $dates = ['deleted_at'];  } 

Then on your code do the normal delete like:

$id = Contents::find( $id ); $id ->delete(); 

Also make sure you have the deleted_at column on your table.

Or just see the docs: http://laravel.com/docs/eloquent#soft-deleting