Commit c60a58ff authored by Colin Viebrock's avatar Colin Viebrock

Someone else can re-word this, but a easy-to-find paragraph on deleteing...

Someone else can re-word this, but a easy-to-find paragraph on deleteing Eloquent models seemed missing.
Signed-off-by: 's avatarColin Viebrock <colin@viebrock.ca>
parent 1db67d47
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- [Setter & Getter Methods](#getter-and-setter-methods)
- [Mass-Assignment](#mass-assignment)
- [Converting Models To Arrays](#to-array)
- [Deleting Models](#delete)
<a name="the-basics"></a>
## The Basics
......@@ -331,7 +332,7 @@ However, you may often only want to insert a new record into the intermediate ta
$user->roles()->attach($role_id);
It's also possible to attach data for fields in the intermediate table (pivot table), to do this add a second array variable to the attach command containing the data you want to attach:
$user->roles()->attach($role_id, array('expires' => $expires));
<a name="sync-method"></a>
......@@ -427,14 +428,14 @@ If you find yourself eager loading the same models often, you may want to use **
class Book extends Eloquent {
public $includes = array('author');
public function author()
{
return $this->belongs_to('Author');
}
}
**$includes** takes the same arguments that **with** takes. The following is now eagerly loaded.
foreach (Book::all() as $book)
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public static $hidden = array('password');
}
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}
<a name="delete"></a>
## Deleting Models
Because Eloquent inherits all the features and methods of Fluent queries, deleting models is a snap:
$author->delete();
Note, however, than this won't delete any related models (e.g. all the author's Book models will still exist), unless you have set up [foreign keys](/docs/database/schema#foreign-keys) and cascading deletes.
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