Doctrine Soft Delete - still return deleted entity in all contexts except one

The link commented by Sepultura gives a few examples as to how to enable/disable filters and write your own custom filters.

From the docs

Example filter:

<?php
namespace Example;
use Doctrine\ORM\Mapping\ClassMetaData,
    Doctrine\ORM\Query\Filter\SQLFilter;

class MyLocaleFilter extends SQLFilter
{
    public function addFilterConstraint(ClassMetadata $targetEntity, $targetTableAlias)
    {
        // Check if the entity implements the LocalAware interface
        if (!$targetEntity->getReflectionClass()->implementsInterface('LocaleAware')) {
            return "";
        }

        return $targetTableAlias.'.locale = ' . $this->getParameter('locale'); // getParameter applies quoting automatically
    }
}

The docs also say to use the following line of code to add this filter (so you can enable/disable it):

$config->addFilter("locale", "\Doctrine\Tests\ORM\Functional\MyLocaleFilter");

However, if you'd want to use this filter everywhere, you'd have to put this line of code in a spot you want everywhere, and also get access to $config (which contains the Configuration object from Doctrine).

In Zend Framework 2 and 3 you could add the following configuration to a core/mvc module or in the application configuration:

'doctrine' => [
    'configuration' => [
        'orm_default' => [
            'filters' => [
                'locale' => MyLocaleFilter::class,
            ],
        ],
    ],
],

The above line of code and configurations enable this filter, to disable in a specific location, use the following line where you want to disable (per the docs (the first enables & configures)):

<?php
$filter = $em->getFilters()->enable("locale");
$filter->setParameter('locale', 'en');

// Disable it
$filter = $em->getFilters()->disable("locale");