Laravel 5.4: how to delete a file stored in storage/app

Question

I want to delete a file that is stored in storage/app/myfolder/file.jpg. I have tried the following codes but none of this works:

use File     $file_path = url().'/storage/app/jobseekers_cvs/'.$filename; unlink($file_path); 

and

use File $file_path = public_path().'/storage/app/myfolder/'.$filename; unlink($file_path); 

and

use File $file_path = app_path().'/storage/app/myfolder/'.$filename; unlink($file_path); 

and also,

File::Delete('/storage/app/myfolder/'.$filename); 

Please help.

Answer 1

You could either user Laravels facade Storage like this:

Storage::delete($file); 

or you could use this:

unlink(storage_path('app/folder/'.$file)); 

If you want to delete a directory you could use this:

rmdir(storage_path('app/folder/'.$folder); 

One important part to mention is that you should first check wether the file or directory exists or not.

So if you want to delete a file you should probably do this:

if(is_file($file)) {     // 1. possibility     Storage::delete($file);     // 2. possibility     unlink(storage_path('app/folder/'.$file)); } else {     echo "File does not exist"; } 

And if you want to check wether it is a directory do this:

if(is_dir($file)) {     // 1. possibility     Storage::delete($folder);     // 2. possibility     unlink(storage_path('app/folder/'.$folder));     // 3. possibility     rmdir(storage_path('app/folder/'.$folder)); } else {     echo "Directory does not exist"; } 

Answer 2

Use storage

//demo  use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Storage;  Storage::delete($filename); 

Another way,

unlink(storage_path('app/folder/'.$filename));