How to Drop Soft Delete from Table using Laravel Migration?

Hi Artisan,

In this tutorial, we will go over the demonstration of laravel drop soft delete migration. This article goes in detailed on how to drop soft delete from table in laravel migration. This article will give you a simple example of laravel remove soft delete migration. you can understand a concept of laravel migration remove soft delete.

If you want to drop soft delete from the table using migration then laravel provides dropSoftDeletes() function to remove soft delete from the table.

Basically, soft delete work with deleted_at column. You need to remove that. You can see the below solution with a full migration example.

Solution:

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

Example:

let's create new migration using following command:

php artisan make:migration add_soft_delete_posts

next, updated migration file as like the below:

database/migrations/2023_01_16_134448_add_soft_delete_posts.php

<?php
  
use Illuminate\Database\Migrations\Migration;
use Illuminate\Database\Schema\Blueprint;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Schema;
  
return new class extends Migration
{
    /**
     * Run the migrations.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function up()
    {
        Schema::table('posts', function(Blueprint $table)
        {
            $table->softDeletes();
        });
    }
  
    /**
     * Reverse the migrations.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function down()
    {
        Schema::table('posts', function(Blueprint $table)
        {
            $table->dropSoftDeletes();
        });
    }
};

Now, you can run migration:

php artisan migrate

I hope it can help you...