Temporarily disable soft delete? about codeigniter-base-model HOT 2 CLOSED

You could write a small wrapper function to temporarily disable soft delete, like this:

public function disableSoftDelete(callable $fn)
{
    $this->soft_delete = false;
    $result = call_user_func($fn);
    $this->soft_delete = true;

    return $result;
}

Then run your query within that closure:

$postId = 1;

$this->user->disableSoftDelete(function () use ($postId)
{
    $this->delete($postId);
});

Or you could simply define a proper delete method – remember, you're free to call $this->_database directly!

public function reallyDelete($id)
{
    return $this->_database->where($this->primary_key, $id)
        ->delete($this->_table);
}

Although, I'd recommend adding an archived flag to your database table. You should be able to reconstruct the state of your system from your data model without having to look at the application code.

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I ended up just removing the soft delete and updating the archived flag properly. That way I can properly delete rows without any extra hacks :)

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