Laravel delete file in app folder (root)

Question

How to delete files from Laravel app directory (not the public directory but the one in the root)?

I tried :

\Storage::Delete('App\file.php');
\Storage::Delete('\App\file.php');
\File::Delete('App\file.php');
\File::Delete('\App\file.php');
unlink ('\App\file.php');

Nothing works.

UPDATE: The file is in something like \App\folder\folder\file.db

Answer 1

When not specifying an absolute path then what is used is the current working directory (the value that getcwd() would return). Usually, that's the /public directory and not the actual project root.

You need to specific an absolute path using the Laravel helpers:

\File::delete(app_path('file.php'));

Note: You can't use the \Storage helpers because they are limited to only work within the app storage folder.