Displaying .txt file in laravel View

Question

I'm having a problem with trying to display data saved as .txt file in laravel blade view. the Laravel site was made by my predecessor and I'm assigned to add some features.

what I have tried :

• using iframe with src to file path. the file path is ~/tmp/somefile.txt (centos 7). result shows that my path is wrong. perhaps I need to do some routing to file? I tried routing it but I think missed something. it keeps going to /tmp/somefile.txt
• using php to dump the txt file. still, I think wrong file path
• using copy method to psql so I can call it from the database. but the text file is auto generated and has 600 lines so thats a big no

is there any workaround or solution to this? how do you link the laravel route to a local file?

Answer 1

you can use get() function, or asset() if your file is in storage/app/public then only

Storage::url(<path>);

works better,

if your file is in public directory simply use

{{ asset(path)}}

it will work

Answer 2

You can just read that file into variable and show it in your blade.

$txtFile = file_get_contents("test.txt");

or,

$myfile = fopen("webdictionary.txt", "r") or die("Unable to open file!");
echo fread($myfile,filesize("webdictionary.txt"));
fclose($myfile);