Laravel Access Images outside public folder

Question

I need to store images in a backend for logged in users. The stored images need to be protected and not visible from the outside (public). I choosed a \"storage\" folder for thi

Answer 1

You can do this like this:

 Route::get('images/{filename}', function ($filename)
 {
     $path = storage_path() . '/' . $filename;

     if(!File::exists($path)) abort(404);

     $file = File::get($path);
     $type = File::mimeType($path);

     $response = Response::make($file, 200);
     $response->header("Content-Type", $type);

     return $response;
 });

Reference:

Laravel 5 - How to access image uploaded in storage within View?

Or Alternatively you can use this library: https://github.com/thephpleague/glide

Just use composer to install it in your project

By default, this will render images from your storage, and allow you to do all sorts of things with it such as cropping, color correction etc.

Reference:

http://glide.thephpleague.com/

https://laracasts.com/discuss/channels/laravel/laravel-5-how-can-we-access-image-from-storage?page=1