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Laravel's filesystem service is good and support both local storage and cloud storage, is there anything that it is unable to do that you require?
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Aug 20, 2015
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Level 2
Any good file management packages for Laravel 5?
Hi, I have been looking around for some time for a good file management package and tried to test a few as well, but they seem to be broken on a path like I use: http://localhost/my-cms/public/... , they usually have paths hardcoded in the code which sucks.
I have tested the following packages: https://github.com/guillermomartinez/filemanager-laravel https://github.com/tsawler/laravel-filemanager
So any suggestions would be great! Thanks!
Level 2
Corez64, this is good but does not have an interface. I need the user to be able to upload / delete / rename files and add / delete / rename directories in a certain directory. Is there any easy way to accomplish this? Thanks!
Level 50
@Corez64 do you mean you want a kind of web-based "explorer"/"finder" kind of system? Laravel won't do that for you. There are quite a few packages out there though - what was the problem with the ones you tested? A quick google search brings up https://github.com/ShyPixie/cute-php-explorer for instance - though you'd need to integrate it with laravel yourself.
Although its too late but may be anyone can get help from this thread web based file management https://github.com/barryvdh/laravel-elfinder
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Level 3
I had a similar need and ended up building something using Dropzone.js. I just added support for creating directories using https://github.com/etrepat/baum. Take a look and see if it meets your needs:
code: https://packagist.org/packages/jasekz/laradrop demo: http://laradrop.elegrit.com
Level 1
laravel-elfinder is a good option. I have tried to integrate it to my own CMS and it's great. The good thing is: it's integrated with Laravel filesystem. It's the natural way to help us control how we should interact with the file structure without the need of storing file hierarchy structure in database like the other solutions. Actually, laravel-elfinder is just a Laravel package of elfinder. You can check it out. This library seems good and provides different options to configure in a flexible way.
I am still on the way to explore all of elfinder configuration to make it match to my own CMS. However, I would like to recommend it as the integration helps me do quickly and easy for me to control what I want.
Level 4
This is a really good media library / file manager - you could easily build a UI on top of it.
Level 10
I integrated that one... easy and pretty nice...
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@leanwebstart How do you actually upload files with that though? I saw someone asked the same question in the issues, but it wasn't answered yet, I'm in the same boat as in I can upload images but can't seem to find out how/where to upload files
Level 1
I also recommend https://github.com/UniSharp/laravel-filemanager
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