Laravel 7 Soft Delete Example

This article will give you example of laravel 7 soft delete. you can understand a concept of soft delete laravel 7 example. step by step explain laravel 7 deleted_at migration. This post will give you simple example of laravel 7 soft delete migration. You just need to some step to done laravel 7 SoftDeletes.

How work soft delete, laravel add deleted_at column on the table that be default will be null and when we remove then it will place current timestamp, Laravel Model always fetch that record have only deleted_at = null.

So, how to use in our project, so first when you create table moigration then you have to add softDeletes(). you can see like bellow example of migration.

Here i bellow example you can learn soft delete in laravel 7.

Create Post Migration Soft Delete

In this post migration open Post migration file and put the below same code.

/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

now you can find deleted_at column in your blog table and you have also model should look like as bellow

/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']; 
}