Laravel Soft Deletes Parent

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Automatically soft delete a model's children while maintaining their own soft deleted state when you restore the parent model. After installing the trait below, the Post model's parent_deleted_at will update whenever an Author model is deleted or restored. This allows you to maintain the original deleted_at for the Post model after Author is restored. The Post model will scope queries to exclude any where the parent is deleted.

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Installation

You can install the package via composer:

composer require dillingham/soft-deletes-parent

Usage

Add the parent_deleted_at column to your table:

Schema::table('posts', function (Blueprint $table) {
    $table->softDeletesParent();
});

And add the trait and parent model to your child model:

<?php

namespace App\Models;

use Dillingham\SoftDeletesParent\SoftDeletesParent;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;

class Post extends Model
{
    use SoftDeletesParent;
}

<?php

namespace App\Providers;

class AppServiceProvider
{
    public function register()
    {
        Post::softDeletesParent(Author::class);
    }
}

Scopes

With parent trashed:

Post::withParentTrashed()->get();

Only parent trashed:

Post::onlyParentTrashed()->get();

Testing

composer test

Contributing

Please see CONTRIBUTING for details.

Security Vulnerabilities

Please review our security policy on how to report security vulnerabilities.

Credits

• Brian Dillingham
• All Contributors

License

The MIT License (MIT). Please see License File for more information.