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

If you store your image in folder public, try this steps:

For example your image is sample.jpg and your path is public/img/sample.jpg so this codes will delete your image

use Illuminate\Support\Facades\File;
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public function deleteImage(){

   $imgWillDelete = public_path() . '/img/sample.jpg';
   File::delete($imgWillDelete);
}