laravel auto hard delete

Question

I have methods where i can soft delete my model, restore them and hard delete (wipe from database) theme,

So far everything is ok, what I want in additional to that is to hard delete after 30 days passed from soft delete info, so in that way even if admin forget to hard delete models it will delete automatically after 30 days.

Here is my codes:

soft delete

public function destroy($id)
    {
        $user = User::findOrFail($id);
        $user->delete();
        Mail::to($user->email)->send(new adminsoftdeleteduser($user));
        return redirect()->route('users.index')->with('success', 'User successfully deleted.');
    }

restore

public function restore($id)
    {
        $user = User::onlyTrashed()->where('id', $id)->restore();
        // Mail::to($user->email)->send(new adminrestoreduser($user));
        return redirect()->route('users.index')->with('success', 'User successfully restored.');
    }

hard delete

public function forcedelete($id)
    {
        $user = User::where('id', $id)->forcedelete();
        Storage::delete($user->image);
        return redirect()->route('users.index')->with('success', 'User Permanently deleted.');
    }

Question

1. what should i add to my hard delete function in order to delete my model after 30 days of deleted_at column data?

Update

I've tried schedule way and as i cannot use cron job to test it so i used php artisan schedule:run and here is the result I've got:

Answer 1

Use the Task Scheduler to automatically run a command:

protected function schedule(Schedule $schedule)
{
    $schedule->call(function () {
        $users = User::whereNotNull('deleted_at')->where(
            'deleted_at', '<=', now()->subDays(30)->toDateTimeString()
        )->get();

        $users->each->forceDelete();
    })->daily();
}