Automatically deleting related rows in Laravel (Eloquent ORM)

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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() {
        parent::boot();

        static::deleting(function($user) { // before delete() method call this
             $user->photos()->delete();
             // do the rest of the cleanup...
        });
    }
}

You should probably also put the whole thing inside a transaction, to ensure the referential integrity..

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