Delete a file from folder in laravel

[Guy On]

I'm working on file delete function. I want to delete image from both database and folder. Image is deleting from database but not from the folder. But i want to perform delete image both from database and folder.
Here is my code.

public function dodelete() {
            { 
                $contact = Contact::find(Input::get('id'));
                File::delete("../app/uploads/");
                if(!is_null($contact))
                {
                    $contact->delete($file);
                }
                return Redirect::route('contact');
            }

    }

[cereal]

The path defined in File::delete($path) must include the filename:

$path = '../app/uploads/' . $contact->filename;

Also you should use the helper to set the correct path:

• http://laravel.com/docs/4.2/helpers#paths

[Guy On]

I did it but its not working yet.

[cereal]

Can you show your updated code? Do you got any errors? If in debug mode you should get the stack trace.

[diafol]

If you're using L5, then you can use the Storage facade - Storage::delete(). File::delete() if L4.2

[Guy On]

Here is my updated code

public function dodelete() {
            { 
                $contact = Contact::find(Input::get('id'));
                $filename= Input::get('upload');
                $path = '../app/uploads/' . $contact->filename;
                if(!is_null($contact))
                {
                    $contact->delete($path);
                }
                return Redirect::route('contact');
            }

    }

[diafol]

You don't mention if it works or not. This looks aas though you're deleting the entire contact, not the file. The model delete does not accept an argument AFAIK.

[cereal]

Ok, just add the method to delete the file: follow diafol's suggestion depending the Laravel version you're using.

[Guy On]

It is not working. This code is only deleting file from database but not from the folder. I tried so many thing in this function but not able to delete the file from the folder

[cereal]

Here:

if(!is_null($contact))
{
    $contact->delete($path);
}

Place:

if(!is_null($contact))
{
    File::delete($path);
    $contact->delete($path);
}

Or Storage::delete() if using Laravel 5.

[diafol]

This is going around in circles. You want to delete the contact AND the uploaded file (if it exists):

function deleteContact($id)
{
    if($contact = Contact::find($id))
    {
        $filename = $contact->filename;
        $fullPath = '../app/uploads/' . $filename;
        if (File::exists($fullPath)) File::delete($fullPath);
        $contact->delete();
        return true;
    }
    return false;
}

if(deleteContact(Input::get('id'))) Redirect::route('contact');