We’re down to our last method: destroy. The destroy method will, you guessed it, remove a resource from the database. This is the simplest of the bunch. We simply need to create a link, delete a resource and return the user to the index page.

https://medium.com/geekculture/laravel-p45-controller-edit-update-cmp-b16b5b77aaaa

Route

The route is already created. We did this a few articles ago.

Route::prefix('/personalcars')->group(function() {
    Route::delete('/{id}', [PersonalCarController::class, 'destroy']);
});

We simply need to send a delete request to our personalcars/{id} route.

Creating a delete request

Before we can destroy a resource, we need to be able to get there. How do you send a delete request to Laravel? With a form.

<form method="post" action="..."> 
    @csrf
    @method('delete')
    <button type="submit">Delete</button>
</form>

We simply need to add our button to where we believe the resource should exist. I’ll add it to our index.blade.php file next to Edit Car.

<x-layouts.app title="{{ $title }}">
    <div class="flex bg-white mt-12">
        <div class="items-center text-center lg:text-left px-8 md:px-12 lg:w-full">
            <div class="relative overflow-x-auto">
                @if (session('status'))
                    <div class="block bg-green-200 p-4">
                        {{ session('status') }}
                    </div>
                @endif
                <table class="w-full text-sm text-left text-gray-500 dark:text-gray-400">
                    <thead class="text-xs text-gray-700 uppercase bg-gray-50 dark:bg-gray-700 dark:text-gray-400">
                        <tr>
                            <!-- ... -->
                            <th scope="col" class="px-6 py-3">
                                Delete
                            </th>
                        </tr>
                    </thead>
                    <tbody>
                        @foreach($cars as $car)
                            <tr class="bg-white border-b dark:bg-gray-800 dark:border-gray-700">
                                <!-- ... -->
                                <td class="px-6 py-4">
                                    <form method="post" action="/personalcars/{{ $car->id }}">
                                        @csrf
                                        @method('delete')
                                        <button type="submit">Delete</button>
                                    </form>
                                </td>
                            </tr>
                        @endforeach
                    </tbody>
                </table>
            </div>
        </div>
    </div>
    <a href="/personalcars/create">
        <button class="block bg-green-400 hover:bg-green-600 text-white uppercase text-lg mx-auto p-4 rounded" type="submit">Add New Car</button>
    </a>
</x-layouts.app>

Destroy Method

The route will direct the code to the destroy method in the PersonalCarController. Inside of it, we simply need to delete the resource and redirect the user back to index.blade.php with a success message.

<?php

namespace App\Http\Controllers;

use App\Models\Image;
use App\Models\PersonalCar;
use App\Models\PersonalCarBrand;
use App\Models\PersonalCarModel;
use Faker\Provider\Person;
use Illuminate\Http\Request;

class PersonalCarController extends Controller
{
    // ...

    /**
     * Remove the specified resource from storage.
     *
     * @param  int  $id
     */
    public function destroy($id)
    {
        PersonalCar::destroy($id);

        return redirect()->to('/personalcars/')->with('status', 'Your car has been deleted.');
    }
}

I went through and deleted a bunch of cars. There’s only one problem now. Our images for that car are still located in the associated tables. We’ll do image cleanup in the next article.

mysql> select * from image_personal_car;
+-----------------+----------+
| personal_car_id | image_id |
+-----------------+----------+
|               1 |        1 |
|               1 |        3 |
|              18 |        6 |
|              15 |        7 |
|              15 |        8 |
|              18 |        9 |
+-----------------+----------+
6 rows in set (0.00 sec)

mysql> select * from images;
+----+---------------------------------------------------------------+-------------------------+---------------------+---------------------+
| id | url                                                           | alt                     | created_at          | updated_at          |
+----+---------------------------------------------------------------+-------------------------+---------------------+---------------------+
|  1 | https://pngimg.com/uploads/chevrolet/%D1%81hevrolet_PNG18.png | 2007 Chevy Corvette     | 2023-01-22 13:15:11 | 2023-01-22 13:15:11 |
|  2 | https://pngimg.com/uploads/chevrolet/%D1%81hevrolet_PNG23.png | 2003 Chevy Corvette     | 2023-01-22 13:29:50 | 2023-01-22 13:29:50 |
|  3 | https://pngimg.com/uploads/chevrolet/%D1%81hevrolet_PNG25.png | 2003 Chevy Corvette     | 2023-01-22 13:30:08 | 2023-01-22 13:30:08 |
|  4 | https://pngimg.com/uploads/chevrolet/%D1%81hevrolet_PNG60.png | Test Image              | 2023-01-22 13:36:52 | 2023-01-22 13:36:52 |
|  5 | images/CHl8y3afKXuwgE8DZWt0D61vOwUEkB11CtSIl0lO.jpg           | 2003 Chevy Corvette     | 2023-01-28 17:46:41 | 2023-01-28 17:46:41 |
|  6 | images/yrqW77FwXqfwmdLA3rH2FQFoavAXxuolz48s5LKu.jpg           | 2003 Chevy Corvette     | 2023-01-28 17:47:02 | 2023-01-28 17:47:02 |
|  7 | images/ZFfJMUIIu0B8JXjqux51poDcCUTm6hC3msIM9C8n.jpg           | 2024 Chevy Corvette Z06 | 2023-01-29 22:07:37 | 2023-01-29 22:07:37 |
|  8 | images/b44fQE1vLjfmEJfJvbIeoMmKNKUjiztUPSByEHJk.jpg           | 2024 Chevy Corvette Z06 | 2023-01-29 22:07:43 | 2023-01-29 22:07:43 |
|  9 | images/BoCbU6B71w1e1WuKpLGdIOv6nsVUaiI1NtiQcmJ6.jpg           | 2003 Chevy Corvette     | 2023-01-29 22:14:08 | 2023-01-29 22:14:08 |
+----+---------------------------------------------------------------+-------------------------+---------------------+---------------------+
9 rows in set (0.00 sec)

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