How to delete all the rows in a table using Eloquent?

Question

My guess was to use the following syntax:

MyModel::all()->delete();

But that did not work. I\'m sure it\'s super simple, but I\'ve searched

Answer 1

Solution who works with Lumen 5.5 with foreign keys constraints :

$categories = MusicCategory::all();
foreach($categories as $category)
{
$category->delete();

}
return response()->json(['error' => false]);

Answer 2

The best way for accomplishing this operation in Laravel 3 seems to be the use of the Fluent interface to truncate the table as shown below

DB::query("TRUNCATE TABLE mytable");