michaeldyrynda/laravel-cascade-soft-deletes

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A Laravel package that adds cascading deletes to Eloquent models using soft deletes, restoring the ON DELETE CASCADE behavior lost when using the SoftDeletes trait. Child relationships are soft deleted alongside parents when a model is deleted.

Use cases

• cascade soft deletes to related eloquent models
• soft delete parent and child records in laravel
• restore cascade delete behavior with soft deletes
• automatically soft delete related models when parent is deleted
• laravel package for cascading soft deletes

When to choose

• you use Laravel's SoftDeletes and need related records deleted too
• you want application-level cascading instead of database foreign key constraints
• you need cascading across nested relationships

When to avoid

• you don't use soft deletes (plain database ON DELETE CASCADE suffices)
• you need to restore children along with the parent (children restoration is not tracked)
• you're not using Laravel or Eloquent

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orm database web-development databases backend php laravel-package eloquent soft-deletes cascade-deletes composer-package laravel

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