Laravel Soft Deletes: Safe Data Removal

Safe deletion with soft deletes:

Enable Soft Deletes

use SoftDeletes;

protected $dates = ['deleted_at'];

Migration

$table->softDeletes();

Query Soft Deleted

$trashedPosts = Post::onlyTrashed()->get();
$allPosts = Post::withTrashed()->get();

Restore and Force Delete

$post->restore();
$post->forceDelete();