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

Update working for Laravel 8.x:

Deleting an image for example ->

First of all add the File Facade at the top of the controller:

use Illuminate\Support\Facades\File;

Then use delete function. If the file is in 'public/' you have to specify the path using public_path() function:

File::delete(public_path("images/filename.png"));