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Laravel Auto Hard Deleter

[!IMPORTANT]
Archived – This package is no longer maintained.
Laravel now provides a built-in way to prune and automatically delete old models using the Prunable and MassPrunable traits.
Please use Laravel's native pruning feature instead.

Example with Laravel Prunable

Then schedule the pruning command in your routes/console.php:

This package deletes soft deleted rows automatically after a time interval that you define.

For Laravel and Lumen 6, 7, 8, 9

• Installation
• Usage
• Auto Hard Delete Command

Installation

Step 1

Require the package with composer using the following command:

Step 2

For Laravel

The service provider will automatically get registered. Or you may manually add the service provider in your config/app.php file:

For Lumen

Add this line of code under the Register Service Providers section of your bootstrap/app.php:

Step 3

Now its the time for scheduling the command. in you app/Console/Kernel.php file, paste this code in schedule() function:

In the code above, the command scheduled to run hourly. you can change it. For more information, please read this page.

Step 4 (Optional)

You can publish the config file with this following command:

Note: If you are using Lumen, you have to use this package.

Also you can set the AUTO_HARD_DELETE_AFTER value in .env file. like the following code:

Usage

in your models that used SoftDeletes trait, you can enable Auto Hard Delete with this code:

Just write const AUTO_HARD_DELETE_ENABLED = true in your models! Also you can set expiration time for your deleted entities using the following line:

In the code above, expiration time for your soft deleted entity model is 5 months. The final code is:

You can set any other values for AUTO_HARD_DELETE_AFTER like 5(means 5 days), 2 hours, 45 days, 2.5 months, 1 year, etc.

Note: If you don't set any value for AUTO_HARD_DELETE_AFTER in your model, the soft deleted models with AUTO_HARD_DELETE_ENABLED = true will be hard deleted after the time defined in config file named auto-hard-deleter.php.

Auto Hard Delete Command

Also you can hard delete expired rows manually using this artisan command:

Written with ♥ by Siavash Bamshadnia

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