How to delete a file in laravel 4 - laravel

Question

I'm using laravel 4 and I need to change an uploaded image, I have it in:
Public
--uploads
---news
----id_news.jpg
When editing the new's I want to make a change image form, but how could I delete and upload another file. I am using:
Input::file('img')->move('uploads/news', $id.'_news.jpg');
The problem it's that it doesn't work, it's not replacing the file, so how could I delete The image so I could upload again.
In laravel 3 I only used:
File::delete('path/to/file');
But I don't see anything about removing files in laravel docs.

Answer 1

I think you should append public_path() to file names , to get real file path, like this
File::delete(public_path().$id.'_news.jpg');

Answer 2

There is still the delete method in Laravel 4:
src/Illuminate/Filesystem/Filesystem.php
otherwise just use good old unlink()!?

Answer 3

You can easily do something like:
$filename = public_path().'/uploads/foo.bar';
if (File::exists($filename)) {
File::delete($filename);
}
Reference: Laravel-recipes Delete a File

Answer 4

Other delete usage:
// Delete a single file
File::delete($filename);
// Delete multiple files
File::delete($file1, $file2, $file3);
// Delete an array of files
$files = array($file1, $file2);
File::delete($files);
Source: http://laravel-recipes.com/recipes/133/deleting-a-file

Answer 5

$destinationPath = 'uploads/my-image.jpeg'; // from public/
if ( File::exists($destinationPath) ) {
File::delete($destinationPath);
}

Answer 6

This works on laravel 4.2.
File::delete(storage_path()."/ProductSalesReport-20150316.csv");
// Here are some other paths to directories laravel offers, Hope this
helps
/* Path to the 'app' folder */
echo app_path();
/* Path to the project's root folder */
echo base_path();
/* Path to the 'public' folder */
echo public_path();
/* Path to the 'app/storage' folder */
echo storage_path();