soft deleted in laravel 5 apply physicaldelete not set deleted_at -

my model is:

<?php namespace app\http\models;  use illuminate\database\eloquent\model; use illuminate\database\eloquent\softdeletes;  class province extends model {   // use softdeletes;  public $timestamps = false;  protected $dates = ['deleted_at'];  public function country(){     return $this->belongsto('app\http\models\country'); }  public function users(){     return $this->hasmany('app\http\models\user'); }  public function customers(){     return $this->hasmany('app\http\models\customer'); }  } 

controller:

public function destroy($id) {     $province = province::with('country')->where('id', $id)->first();     // dd($province);     $province->delete();  } 

when call http://localhost:8080/pal/public/province/22/delete.

record 22 deleted physically database.

what's missing?

when models have soft delete enabled, records deleted_at not null won't returned when make query. therefore try call delete() on null , causes error.

set deleted_at manually null "undelete" record during testing.

furthermore should check if model null before deleting:

$province = province::with('country')->where('id', $id)->first();  if($province != null){     $province->delete(); }