Check if a model uses Soft Deleting

Basically I have a master page that uses information passed down to render the model results. Not all models that are passed to the master page will be soft deleting models. So I want to be able to check whether or not the model uses soft deleting. Kind of like the solution provided here: http://laravel.io/forum/03-15-2014-how-to-determine-if-model-support-soft-deleting

You could write a helper that looks to see if your classes uses the SoftDeletes trait.

http://php.net/manual/en/function.class-uses.php

based on @nate.a.johnson

in_array('Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\SoftDeletes', class_uses($model))

Use @ctf0's code in an accessor attribute:

// In your model...
public function getSoftDeletingAttribute()
{
    // ... check if 'this' model uses the soft deletes trait
    return in_array('Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\SoftDeletes', class_uses($this)) && ! $this->forceDeleting;
}

$myModel->soft_deleting; // True if the SoftDeletes trait is in use AND forceDeleting is off.

Smart solution!