Answer: Automatically deleting related rows in Laravel (Eloquent ORM)

answer re: Automatically deleting related rows in Laravel (Eloquent ORM)

Nov 20 '13

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I believe this is a perfect use-case for Eloquent events (http://laravel.com/docs/eloquent#model-events). You can use the "deleting" event to do the cleanup:

class User extends Eloquent
{
    public function photos()
    {
        return $this->has_many('Photo');
    }

    // this is a recommended way to declare event handlers
    public static function boot() {

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