[Feature] Soft-Delete in Eloquent

[bencorlett]

I refer to @philsturgeon's tweet regarding soft delete functionality in FuelPHP's ORM.

I think this is a pretty sweet feature and would be nice to add to Eloquent. We could just have a protected $deleted attribute or something which, if present, will be respected when finding records and relationships.

Thoughts?

[JoostK]

This has been proposed before here, and was rejected by Taylor because he didn't want to litter the core with it.

I think if you need this behavior, you could easily write a subclass (just as it's done in Fuel) which does this for you.

[bencorlett]

Hi mate,

Yeah I understand that, however it would involve more than subclassing Eloquent, would also involve modifying the Eloquent query builder as well as potentially a number of the relationship classes.

I spend my days telling people to look at old issues before they create new (duplicate) ones. This is the first time I didn't practice what I preach and I've done it! Will close.

[kapv89]

@bencorlett .. actually, it'd not involve modifying eloquent query builder at all.
You'd need to only override the save method of your query builder,
and the newQuery method