how to force delete in laravel 5.4

I made a user management system with soft deletion and force deletion options. However, I’m having trouble getting the force deletion option to work.

The route:

Route::post('users/{user}/delete', 'UserController@forcedelete');

The relevant controller code:

public function forcedelete(User $user)
{
     $user->forceDelete();
     return redirect('users/trash');
}

The view code:

<a href="{{ url('users/'.$user->id.'/delete') }}" 
   onclick="event.preventDefault(); document.getElementById('delete').submit();">
    <i class="fa fa-trash-o btn btn-danger btn-xs"></i>
</a>

<form id="delete" action="{{ url('users/'.$user->id.'/delete') }}" 
      method="POST" style="display: none;">
    {{ csrf_field() }}
    {{ method_field('DELETE') }}
</form>

The error that I’m getting is

 MethodNotAllowedHttpException in RouteCollection.php line 233:

Why is it not working, and how can I fix it?

Answer

Try placing this route above your other user routes or user resource route. Also you’re trying to use route model binding with a soft deleted model, which won’t work. You need to use the id and delete it manually.

public function forcedelete($id)
{
    User::where('id', $id)->forceDelete();
    return redirect('users/trash');
}

Edit: Also delete {{ method_field('DELETE') }} from your form, since the route method defined is post.