Checking if file exists

This returns 'yes'

if(file_exists('/mnt/files/snow.jpg')) {
    dd('yes');
} else {
    dd('no');
}

This returns 'no'

use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Storage;
if(Storage::exists('/mnt/files/snow.jpg')) {
    dd('yes');
} else {
    dd('no');
}

This returns nothing. not even an error message.

use Illuminate\Http\File;
if(File::exists('/mnt/files/snow.jpg')) {
    dd('yes');
} else {
    dd('no');
}

Why? I thought I could at least use Storage::exists() to check if a file exists? The docs tell me I can, or am I misreading?

bobbybouwmann

8 years ago

Best Answer

Level 88

The Storage facade uses the storage that is active in your config files (config/filesystems.php). Note that this defaults to local. The root path is set for each storage option. In the case of local it's pointing to storage/app out of my head.

So it's not possible to retrieve a file with Storage that is not in your project without weird hacks!

timgavin

8 years ago

Level 11

@bobbybouwmann Thanks, and that makes a lot of sense... I should have known that!

What about Files? I've seen examples that say it should work. In fact, this is the first Google result when searching for "Laravel file exists." Was this removed in L5?

Shafqat_ali

5 years ago

Level 5

@timgavin Maybe try the documentation way to specify storage disk exist i.e. You can find it here

$exists = Storage::disk('s3')->exists('file.jpg');

ektapuri

1 year ago

Level 1

I am new to laravel and was dealing with images, what i understood here is, considering images are stored in public/images folder

file_exists needs full path to image like var/.../...//storage/images/ $image_path = storage_path(images/) file_exists(storage_path($image_path) this will return true

Whearas, Storage Facade only needs images/

$image_path = "images/"; Storage::exists($image_path) this will return true

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