This Delete plugin enable soft deletable. Entities aren't removed from your database. Instead, a deleted timestamp is set on the record.

It is developed for CakePHP 4.x.

You can install plugin into your CakePHP application using composer.

The recommended way to install composer packages is:

composer require slicesofcake/delete

Load the Behavior in your src/Model/Table/YourTable.php (or if you have AppTable.php). The default field named in database table should be deleted (like created or modified) and compatible type with Time::now() (eg. DATE or DATETIME).

public function initialize(array $config)
{
    parent::initialize($config);

    $this->addBehavior('SlicesCake/Delete.Deleted');
}

You can configuration to customize the Delete plugin:

$this->addBehavior('SlicesCake/Delete.Deleted', [
    'field' => 'deleted_at', // Change column field name
]);

1. Load Migrations plugin (https://github.com/cakephp/migrations).
2. Copy file from /vendor/slicesofcake/delete/config/20200101122906_AddDeletedToProducts.example.php to your app main config directory.
3. Rename to 20200101122906_AddDeletedTo[YourTable].php.
4. Edit file and rename class with changes above.
5. Update change method to set table name.
6. Run migrations by command: cake migrations migrate