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How To Delete Files after Download in Laravel 8

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In my previous post, I share how to download files in Laravel. Now I will share how to delete your file after downloading. Luckily Laravel 8 already provided a function to delete the file directly after sending it to the user end.

With the help of this function deleteFileAfterSend(true) a chaining method for Response class in Laravel 8 our task is done!

Below is the complete code on how to use it.

public function download() {
    $path = public_path('for_pro_members.zip');
    $fileName = 'purchase_files.zip';

    return Response::download($path, $fileName, ['Content-Type: application/zip'])->deleteFileAfterSend(true);
}
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I hope this tutorial can help you. Kindly visit here https://codeanddeploy.com/blog/laravel/how-to-delete-files-after-download-in-laravel-8 if you want to download this code.

Happy coding :)

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