Proper way to upload/encrypt or decrypt/download a binary file in a laravel form

Do you want to encrypt the file or just the file name?

I want to encrypt the contents.

In its simplest form i will use a form filed to upload the file and get it in my controller through Request object.

Before i save it i need to encrypt its contents. I will also encrypt the filename but that is trivial.

I think you can get away with using this: http://laravel.com/docs/5.0/encryption Just get the contents of the file and throw it in there!

This also might be useful: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3671685/how-to-run-a-specific-phpunit-xml-testsuite

This is a code example of mine:

if (Request::hasFile('attachment')) {
            if(Request::file('attachment')->isValid()){
                $attachment = Request::file('attachment');
                $fileContent = File::get($attachment);
                $fileName ='post-'. $newPost->id . '.' . $attachment->getClientOriginalExtension();
                Storage::put($fileName,$fileContent);
            }
        }

You mean that i should use Crypt::encrypt with $fileContent ??

What happens with the encrypted file size?

Don't know, you need to try it out! I never encrypted the complete file because I never needed that!

I tested it in an xls file and it worked!!

Used this to decrypt:

$file = Storage::get('post-16.xls');
Storage::put('post-16-decrypted.xls',Crypt::decrypt($file));

I will wait a little bit to see if this is the optimal solution for my case.

thanks!

Cool, you can do a lot by just trying it out ;)