How to delete file from public folder in laravel 5.1

Question

I want to delete a News from database and when I hit the delete button all data from database deleted but the image is remains in upload folder. So, how do I this to work. t

Answer 1

First make sure the file exist by building the path

if($request->hasFile('image')){
    $path = storage_path().'/app/public/YOUR_FOLDER/'.$db->image;
      if(File::exists($path)){
          unlink($path);
      }