Hi,

try

$user->posts()->detach( $post)

l3hash said:

Hi,

try

$user->posts()->detach( $post)

I don't think this will work because its not a many-to-many relationship.

Have you tried just setting the foreign id to null manually?

$user->post_id = null;
$user->save();

I think it is destroy

$user->posts->destroy()

There is also soft deleting, you add a column called deleted_at then it marks records as deleted but keeps them for historical reasons

http://laravel.com/docs/eloquent#soft-deleting

l3hash said:

Have you tried just setting the foreign id to null manually?

$user->post_id = null; $user->save();

I have. My concern is the following.

$user->posts->save($post);
$user->posts->count(); // returns 1
$post->user_id = null;
$post->save();
$user->posts->count(); // still returns 1, instead of 0!

Any idea? I'm thinking the lack of actual method for doing so leads to model events not being triggering, etc. Yet I don't want to dive into Laravel's internal.

As a fall back I might do what IanSirkit suggested, using destroy() and then dealing with the removed element as a batch using the withTrashed() method. But it's not exactly what I wanted to do in the first place...