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

Question

I have got user\'s avatars uploaded in Laravel storage. How can I access them and render them in a view?

The server is pointing all requests to /public,

Answer 1

If you are like me and you somehow have full file paths (I did some glob() pattern matching on required photos so I do pretty much end up with full file paths), and your storage setup is well linked (i.e. such that your paths have the string storage/app/public/), then you can use my little dirty hack below :p)

 public static function hackoutFileFromStorageFolder($fullfilePath) {
        if (strpos($fullfilePath, 'storage/app/public/')) {
           $fileParts = explode('storage/app/public/', $fullfilePath);
           if( count($fileParts) > 1){
               return $fileParts[1];
           }
        }

        return '';
    }

Answer 2

According to Laravel 5.2 docs, your publicly accessible files should be put in directory

storage/app/public

To make them accessible from the web, you should create a symbolic link from public/storage to storage/app/public.

ln -s /path/to/laravel/storage/app/public /path/to/laravel/public/storage

Now you can create in your view an URL to the files using the asset helper:

echo asset('storage/file.txt');

Answer 3

If you are on windows you can run this command on cmd:

mklink /j /path/to/laravel/public/avatars /path/to/laravel/storage/avatars 

from: http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/278262-mklink-create-use-links-windows.html

Answer 4

without site name

{{Storage::url($photoLink)}}

if you want to add site name to it example to append on api JSON felids

 public function getPhotoFullLinkAttribute()
{
    return env('APP_URL', false).Storage::url($this->attributes['avatar']) ;
}

Answer 5

If disk 'local' is not working for you then try this :

1. Change local to public in 'default' => env('FILESYSTEM_DRIVER', 'public'), from project_folder/config/filesystem.php
2. Clear config cache php artisan config:clear
3. Then create sym link php artisan storage:link

To get url of uploaded image you can use this Storage::url('iamge_name.jpg');

Answer 6

You can run this command in your console to make link:

php artisan storage:link

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