Soft delete on a intermediate table for many-to-many relationship

Question

How do I set soft delete on an intermediate table which is connecting two different types of entities? I\'ve added deleted_at column, but the docs say that I need to put th

Answer 1

You could also use Laravel's Eloquent BelongsToMany method updateExistingPivot.

$model->relation->updateExistingPivot($relatedId, ['deleted_at' => Carbon\Carbon::now()]);

So to use @RonaldHulshof examples you have a User model with a groups relationship which is a belongsToMany relationship.

public function groups() {
    return $this->belongsToMany(Group::class)->whereNull('groups_users.deleted_at')->withTimestamps();
}

Then in order to soft delete the pivot table entry you would do the following.

$user->groups->updateExistingPivot($groupId, ['deleted_at' => Carbon\Carbon::now()]);