How to get file URL using Storage facade in laravel 5?

Question

I\'ve been experimenting using the new Flysystem integration with Laravel 5. I am storing \'localised\' paths to the DB, and getting the Storage facade to complete the path

Answer 1

Store method:

public function upload($img){
   $filename = Carbon::now() . '-' .  $img->getClientOriginalName();
   return Storage::put($filename, File::get($img)) ? $filename : '';
}

Route:

 Route::get('image/{filename}', [
        'as'   => 'product.image',
        'uses' => 'ProductController@getImage',
    ]);

Controller:

 public function getImage($filename)
    {
        $file = Storage::get($filename);

        return new Response($file, 200);
    }

View:

 <img src="{{ route('product.image', ['filename' => $yourImageName]) }}" alt="your image"/>

Answer 2

If you just want to display storage (disk) path use this:

Storage::disk('local')->url('screenshots/1.jpg'); // storage/screenshots/1.jpg
Storage::disk('local')->url(''): // storage

Also, if you are interested, I created a package (https://github.com/fsasvari/laravel-uploadify) just for Laravel so you can use all those fields on Eloquent model fields:

$car = Car::first();

$car->upload_cover_image->url();
$car->upload_cover_image->name();
$car->upload_cover_image->basename();
$car->upload_cover_image->extension();
$car->upload_cover_image->filesize();

Answer 3

This is how I got it to work - switching between s3 and local directory paths with an environment variable, passing the path to all views.

In .env:

APP_FILESYSTEM=local or s3
S3_BUCKET=BucketID

In config/filesystems.php:

'default' => env('APP_FILESYSTEM'),

In app/Providers/AppServiceProvider:

public function boot()
{
    view()->share('dynamic_storage', $this->storagePath());
}

protected function storagePath()
{
    if (Storage::getDefaultDriver() == 's3') {
        return Storage::getDriver()
                ->getAdapter()
                ->getClient()
                ->getObjectUrl(env('S3_BUCKET'), '');
    }

    return URL::to('/');
}

Answer 4

This method exists since Laravel 5.4, you can get it by:

$path = Storage::disk('public')->path($filename);

Answer 5

First get file url/link then path, as below:

$url = Storage::disk('public')->url($filename);
$path = public_path($url);

Answer 6

Another solution I found is this:

Storage::disk('documents')->getDriver()->getConfig()->get('url')

Will return the url with the base path of the documents Storage