How To Use Soft Delete In Laravel With Mysql Database - FreeCodeBlog

Hi, do you really want to use soft delete to make delete, restore and permanent delete system in laravel for any MySQL database table like posts, products, categories. In this tutorial I will use laravel 8 version and MySQL database.

Sometimes you may need to implement soft delete in laravel to develop restore and delete forever system. Use soft deletes table in migration file like (posts, users, categories, tags, products) tables from database migration folder.

$table->softDeletes();

For this tutorial I will use soft deletes in posts table. you can use soft deletes with any others MySQL database tables like (users, categories, tags, products).

<?php

use Illuminate\Database\Migrations\Migration;
use Illuminate\Database\Schema\Blueprint;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Schema;

class CreatePostsTable extends Migration
{
    public function up()
    {
        Schema::create('posts', function (Blueprint $table) {
            $table->id();
            $table->string('title');
            $table->timestamps();
            $table->softDeletes();
        });
    }

    public function down()
    {
        Schema::dropIfExists('posts');
    }
}

Well, Now let's go to create restore and delete forever system using soft deletes in laravel. Now I will laravel 8 version for this tutorial.

php artisan make:migration create_posts_table

Now open posts migration file from database folder and use soft deletes table.

$table->softDeletes();

Okay so this is for today. See you again next tutorials. Thanks