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Laravel Eloquent: Soft Deletes

Implement soft deletes for recoverable data.

16 January 20261 min readLaravelاقرأ بالعربية

On this page

  1. Add to Model
  2. Migration
  3. Query Soft Deleted
  4. Restore
  5. Force Delete
  6. Check if Trashed

Soft deletes:

Add to Model

php
use SoftDeletes;

protected $dates = ['deleted_at'];

Migration

php
$table->softDeletes();

Query Soft Deleted

php
User::withTrashed()->get();
User::onlyTrashed()->get();

Restore

php
$user->restore();

Force Delete

php
$user->forceDelete();

Check if Trashed

php
if ($user->trashed()) {
    // Soft deleted
}
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