Laravel Soft Deletes Parent

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.

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

License

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

Soft Delete Child Models When a Parent is Deleted