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I can handle this with some logic in php, but I was wondering if there is something already built into Eloquent for this type of situation. I have 3 tables with a $this->hasMany type of relation. Lets say I want to delete something from table 2. Is there a feature in eloquent that lets you do a soft delete only if there's no fk referencing the entry in another table? For example User->Invoice->Order I would like to do a soft deletes on an invoice, but I need to make sure it has no orders attached to it. Also is there way to do cascade delete in eloquent (like a method) so I can delete an invoice with all of it's orders or a customer with all invoices and orders ?
Eloquent itself doesn't have functionality for it, but your models do throw events. So what you can do is hook into the delete event on the invoice model and perform your action there
You can find this approach here in the documentation: https://laravel.com/docs/8.x/eloquent#events-using-closures
You can also do this in a dedicated class as you can find here: https://laravel.com/docs/8.x/eloquent#observers
thank you sir!
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