Laravel Soft Deleting (Passive)

This package provides Laravel Model Soft Deleting functionality that is disabled by default. No models are scoped out implicitly.

namespace App\Models;

use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
use Codewiser\SoftDeletes\PassiveSoftDeletes;

class Flight extends Model
{
    use PassiveSoftDeletes;
}

Alternatively to Laravel SoftDeletes, PassiveSoftDeletes counts model as thrashed not only then deleted_at attribute is not null but deleted_at is in the past. So you may trash models in advance.

As PassiveSoftDeletes doesn't apply any scopes by default, Route::withTrashed() is unnecessary. You should explicitly scope queries.

Builder

PassiveSoftDeletes doesn't utilize withTrashed builder method. You may use it but it has no sense.

withoutTrashed and onlyTrashed methods influence to records trashed to current moment of time. You may pass the exact date.

// Will exclude flights with `deleted_at` < now()

Flight::query()->withoutTrashed();

// Will return only flights with `deleted_at` in a next month

Flight::query()->onlyTrashed(now()->addMonth());