Storing uploaded images

Running Laravel 5.5 on Forge. This is current flow of an image upload

Uploaded to server in a temporary directory (resources/uploads/tmp)
Queue process images into multiple sizes (original, large, medium, small, thumb)
Queue process then moves saves those new sizes and moves the original to (public/images/large, etc.)

In the future S3 or something similar for storage is probably recommended but for now it's a side project :)

Can anyone suggest a better method to managing and serving images in this case? I'm moving 12k images over pre-launch to be resized and re-saved but wanted to see if there's a better method to do this.

Braunson

8 years ago

Level 18

I'm thinking the best method at this point is to use the storage directory and referencing the docs at https://laravel.com/docs/5.5/structure#the-storage-directory symlink storage/app/public to public/storage.

Thoughts on any better way to do this?

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