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imarc/cascade
=============

Cascading soft deletes for Laravel Eloquent

1.0.2(1mo ago)029↓100%MITPHPPHP ^8.2

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Cascade
=======

[](#cascade)

Cascading soft deletes for Laravel Eloquent. When a parent model is soft-deleted, related models are soft-deleted. When the parent is restored, **all** currently trashed rows for those relations are restored one-by-one so `restored` events run (nested cascades work). This still restores every trashed child for that foreign key, not only rows deleted in the same cascade as the parent.

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

Use Laravel’s `SoftDeletes` and this package’s `CascadeSoftDeletes` on the parent. List relationship method names to cascade:

```
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\SoftDeletes;
use Imarc\Cascade\CascadeSoftDeletes;

class Post extends Model
{
    use CascadeSoftDeletes, SoftDeletes;

    /** @var list */
    protected array $cascadeSoftDeletes = ['comments'];

    public function comments(): HasMany
    {
        return $this->hasMany(Comment::class);
    }
}
```

Child models should use `SoftDeletes` if you want them included; non–soft-delete children are skipped on cascade delete.

Supported relations
-------------------

[](#supported-relations)

`HasMany`, `HasOne`, `MorphMany`, and `MorphOne` are supported. `BelongsTo`, `BelongsToMany`, and other relation types are ignored for cascading.

Force delete
------------

[](#force-delete)

When the parent is force-deleted, soft-deletable children in the listed relations are force-deleted so orphaned soft-deleted rows are not left behind.

Install
-------

[](#install)

```
composer require imarc/cascade
```

Tests (from application root)
-----------------------------

[](#tests-from-application-root)

```
php artisan test --testsuite=Cascade
```

Or:

```
./vendor/bin/phpunit -c packages/imarc/cascade/phpunit.xml
```

###  Health Score

40

—

FairBetter than 86% of packages

Maintenance89

Actively maintained with recent releases

Popularity9

Limited adoption so far

Community6

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity47

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 100% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~0 days

Total

2

Last Release

56d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/42547992?v=4)[Dave Anastasi](/maintainers/daveanastasi)[@daveanastasi](https://github.com/daveanastasi)

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Top Contributors

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