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Djiraga
Djiraga

Reputation: 43

Laravel display images from storage/app/public

I am trying to display images from the storage/app/public folder. Whenever my controller retrieves the images form this folder with

$images = Storage::files('public');

The files retrieved from here are prefixed with public/, rather than storage/. The problem this causes is that an image can be found localhost/storage/filename.jpg, but cannot be found with localhost/public/filename.jpg or localhost/storage/public/filename.jpg. I can resolve this issue by manually cutting off the public prefix and replacing it with storage, but this isn't a particularly graceful way of doing things.

I have run the command php artisan storage:link and rerunning it results in a The "public/storage" directory already exists. message.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1004

Answers (1)

Hieu Le
Hieu Le

Reputation: 8415

Laravel comes with a built-in public disk in the storage configuration.

To list all files in the storage/app/public folder without prefixes, use:

\Storage::disk('public')->files();

To get the correct URL of files inside the storage/app/public folder, use:

\Storage::disk('public')->url($file);

To return the array of URLs of files inside the storage/app/public folder, here is an example combination:

array_map(function ($f) {
    return \Storage::disk('public')->url($f);
}, \Storage::disk('public')->files());

Upvotes: 1

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