Laravel delete all directories that are older than a certain date

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I am trying to write an artisan command that deletes any folders that are 50 or more days old. I am unable to do thiswith timestamps, but the folder names are labelled with the date i.e 2022-01-14 (Y-m-d)

collections/2022-01-14
collections/2022-01-13
collections/2022-01-12

This is what I currently have, but it is not doing anything and not returning any errors, it just doesnt work

collect(Storage::directories('collections/'))
    ->each(function ($directory) {
        if ($directory < now()->subDays(50)->format('Y-m-d')) {
            Storage::deleteDirectory($directory);
        }
    });
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1 Answers

You are comparing a string with another string, use Carbon logic instead. Parse the directory name to a Carbon instance, and use less than equal lte() to compare.

collect(Storage::directories('collections/'))
    ->each(function ($directory) {
        $directoryDate = Str::after($directory, '/');
        if (Carbon::parse(directoryDate)->lte(now()->subDays(50))) {
            Storage::deleteDirectory($directory);
        }
    });

EDIT

Directory came with full path, finding everything after '/' would get you the date part. Using the string helper after().

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