How to Delete uploaded file in Laravel

How to Delete uploaded file in Laravel

The public_path function returns the fully qualified path to the public directory and the base_path function returns the fully qualified path to the project root.

So if you want to reach a file in public folder you can use public_path() like this:

unlink(public_path("test.txt"));

You can also use File:delete instead of unlink like this:

use File;
File::delete(public_path("test.txt"));

// Delete multiple files
File::delete($file1, $file2, $file3);

// Delete an array of files
$files = array($file1, $file2);
File::delete($files);

Example with storage:

1. Using the default local storage you need to specify public subfolder:

Storage::delete('public/'.$image_path);

2. Use public storage directly:

Storage::disk('public')->delete($image_path);