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How to determine if a model uses soft deletes in Laravel 4.2

How do I determine if a model uses soft deletes in Laravel?

In the Laravel API I found the function isSoftDeleting(), but apparently that was removed from Laravel 4.2 now that it uses the SoftDeletingTrait.

How would I go about determining if a model uses soft deletes now?

Solution

  • If you want to check programatically whether a Model uses soft deletes you can use the PHP function class_uses to determine if your model uses the SoftDeletingTrait

    // You can use a string of the class name
$traits = class_uses('Model');
// Or you can pass an instance
$traits = class_uses($instanceOfModel);

if (in_array('SoftDeletingTrait', $traits))
{
    // Model uses soft deletes
}

// You could inline this a bit
if (in_array('SoftDeletingTrait', class_uses('Model')))
{
    // Model uses soft deletes
}