Laravel Eloquent delete by id - php

Question

I'm trying to delete a single record by id. Instead, it deletes all records in that table.
Here's my code:
View
<form role="form" action="{{ route('status.delete', ['statusId' => $status->id]) }}" method="post">
<button type="submit" class="btn btn-default"><i class="fa fa-times"></i> Delete</button>
<input type="hidden" name="_token" value="{{ Session::token() }}">
</form>
Routes
Route::post('/status/{statusId}/delete', [
'uses' => '\Dashboard\Http\Controllers\StatusController#deleteStatus',
'as' => 'status.delete',
'middleware' => ['auth'],
]);
Controller
public function deleteStatus(Request $request, $statusId)
{
Auth::user()->statuses()->delete($statusId);
return redirect()->route('home')->with('success', 'Post deleted.');
}
Note: When I dd($statusId) it does provide the right ID for the status I'm deleting. So that part does work.

Answer 1

This is possible in Laravel 5.6 using the destroy method:
From the docs:
However, if you know the primary key of the model, you may delete the
model without retrieving it. To do so, call the destroy method
App\Model::destroy(1);
or to delete an array of ids:
App\Model::destroy([1, 2, 3]);
or by query:
App\Model::where('active', 0)->delete();

Answer 2

Unfortunately, the Eloquent builder does not support passing the id to delete.
Instead, you have to first find to model, then call delete on it:
$request->user()->statuses()->findOrFail($statusId)->delete();

Answer 3

you can delete the model by using another approach like
App\Models\ModelName::find(id)->delete()
but it throws nullPointerException that you have to handle

Answer 4

**Step 1 create route inside web.php**
Route::delete('/answers_delete/{id}', [App\Http\Controllers\AnswerController::class, 'delete'])->name('answers.delete');
**Step 2 Create method in your controller**
use App\Models\Answer; // use in top of this file
public function delete($id)
{
$ans = Answer::find($id);
$ans->delete();
session()->flash('success', 'Answer Deleted Successfully!!!');
return view('admin.anser.index');
}
**Step 3 define your route name inside form action(Note my case view file name index.blade.php and inside admin/answer/index.blade.php)*
<form action="{{ route('answers.delete', $answer->id) }}" method="POST">
#csrf
#method('DELETE')
<button type="submit" class="btn btn-danger" style="display: inline;">Delete</button>
</form>