Soft Delete example for Laravel

softdelete.php

<?php

class Softdelete extends HealthieModel
{
	protected function query()
	{
		return new SoftDeleteQuery($this);
	}

	public function delete()
	{
		if( $this->exists )
		{
			$this->fire_event('deleting');

			$result = $this->query()->where(static::$key, '=', $this->get_key())->update(array('deleted_at' => time()));

			$this->fire_event('deleted');

			return $result;
		}
	}
}

softdeletequery.php

<?php

use Laravel\Database\Eloquent\Query;

class SoftDeleteQuery extends Query
{
	public function __construct($model)
	{
		parent::__construct($model);
		$this->where_null('deleted_at');
	}

	public function deleted()
	{
		$wheres = $this->table->wheres;
		$wheres = array_filter( $wheres, function($where){ 
			if( ! ( $where['type'] == 'where_null' && $where['column'] == 'deleted_at' ) )
			{
				return $where;
			}
		});

		$this->table->wheres = $wheres;
		$this->where_not_null('deleted_at');

		return $this;
	}
}