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    
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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";
}