How to delete photo from project's public folder before updating data in lumen/laravel?

Laravel

I am trying to delete a photo from my project's public folder before updating another photo. My code looks like this:

if(File::exist( $employee->avatar)){
 //$employee->avatar looks /uploads/avatars/1646546082.jpg and it exist in folder

 File::delete($employee->avatar);
 }

This is not working in my case. If I comment on this code then another photo-updated without deleting perfectly. How can I solve the issue!

Comments

Rakshit

6 Mar 2022

If your file is existing to the mentioned directory, try below code, it will work.

Here, PHP Unlink function will work for you.

$path = public_path()."/<your path to image directory>/".$from_database->image_name;
unlink($path);

Try it, It will work for you.

Reference: PHP Unlink function - w3schools.

Eslam Zedan

6 Mar 2022

Try unlink function

$path = public_path()."/pictures/".$from_database->image_name;
unlink($path);