Level 80
@Qlic You will either need to copy the uploaded files to a web-accessible folder, or have an endpoint that returns the file. I’m not sure how you’re planning on going about storing a PDF inline on a web page, though.
Apr 23, 2015
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Level 18
Display image stored inside the sotrage folder (outside public)
Hello once again,
I've read quite a few pages which kinda address the same thing as i'm after, however i can't quite seem to find the answer i'm looking for.
I store files (.pdf, .jpg etc.) in the storage directory, so a file could be stored as: storage/app/project/1/my_picture.jpg
Now i'm looking for the easiest way to display these files in my blade template, i'm assuming i'll have to use a route to access a function on the controller, but that's about as far as i'm coming.
Some examples have hunderds of code lines, whilst others use only a few, what would be the best practice of getting this to work?
Level 18
Well idealy i would like to check on extension/mimetype, if its an image it should display the thumbnail, if it's a file like .pdf it should display a little .pdf icon (font-awesome). Clicking on the file should than offer it as a download.
I know that storing this outside the public folder is harder, but it concerns "secret" content.
Level 20
@Qlic Keep using the route to access the files, just put this in your controller method:
return response()->download($fullPathToFile);
Full path can be obtained from:
$fullPathToFile = storage_path() . $filename;
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