Use custom soft deleted column in laravel

Question

I know that How can I use Soft Deleting feature for models in laravel. like this :

class Flight extends Model
{
    use SoftDeletes;

    protected $dates = ['deleted_at'];
}

But I want to use a custom column named sender_deleted_at for that feature where all related methods like forceDelete , restore , withTrashed and etc work based that column.

I wrote this Question But I could not get the right answer.

I'm using Laravel 5.3.

Answer 1

The SoftDeletes trait uses this code to "delete" a row:

protected function runSoftDelete() {
        $query = $this->newQueryWithoutScopes()->where($this->getKeyName(), $this->getKey());
        $this->{$this->getDeletedAtColumn()} = $time = $this->freshTimestamp();
        $query->update([$this->getDeletedAtColumn() => $this->fromDateTime($time)]);
}

The body of getDeletedAtColumn() is:

public function getDeletedAtColumn() {
    return defined('static::DELETED_AT') ? static::DELETED_AT : 'deleted_at';
}

Therefore you can do this:

class Flight extends Model
{
    use SoftDeletes;    
    protected $dates = ['my_deleted_at'];
    const DELETED_AT = 'my_deleted_at';
}