Deleting local image of Laravel product

Question

Well I have a product and I have an image being recorded locally.

I need that in the backend when the product is deleted the local image is deleted.

When I delete deletes the database data deletes the image information in the database, but does not delete the local image.

What’s the best way to do it?

My route :

Route::get('/{id}/destroy',['as'=>'products.destroy', 'uses'=>'AdminProductsController@destroy']);

My function to delete the product:

public function destroy($id)
{
    $this->productModel->find($id)->delete();

    return redirect()->route('products');
}

Function to remove image in image view

 public function destroyImage(ProductImage $productImage, $id)
{
    $image = $productImage->find($id);

    if(file_exists(public_path() .'/uploads/'.$image->id.'.'.$image->extension)) {

        Storage::disk('public_local')->delete($image->id . '.' . $image->extension);
    }

    $product = $image->product;
    $image->delete();


    return redirect()->route('products.images', ['id'=>$product->id]);

}

Answer 1

When deleting the product, your method destroy also need to delete the created file.

You can do this directly in the method:

public function destroy($id)
{
    $disk = Storage::disk('local');

    $this->productModel->find($id);
    $disk->delete($this->productModel->filePath);

    $this->productModel->delete();

    return redirect()->route('products');
}

A more elegant way would be to use the Event deleting() of Eloquent:

In the method boot() of your app\Providers\AppProvider.php insert:

public function boot()
{
    \Namespace\Para\Product::deleting(function ($product) {
         Storage::disk('local')->delete($product->filePath);

         return true;
    });
}

PS.: I’m assuming you’re storing the file name in the database ($product->filePath)