Hi guys,
Im currently struggling with the following problem:
I want to add a file using a method. Therefore I'm passing the full qualified path of the uploaded file which directly points to it:
//That looks like so:
/Users/username/projects/one-laravel-project/storage/app/public/upload/file.jpg
Within my method, I do need the absolute directory (like above without the filename) and a web callable path that should look like:
/storage/upload/
I managed both with the following code:
public static function addMediaFromFile($file_path)
{
//Path
$directory = dirname($file_path);
$file_name = basename($file_path);
$file_path_relative = addTrailingSlash(Storage::url(substr($directory,strlen(storage_path('app/public/')))));
$file_path_absolute = addTrailingSlash($directory);
//...
}
The "addTrailingSlash" function makes sure that both paths will end with a slash.
Please tell me that there is a more efficient way to get the relative path ($file_path_relative).
Thank you for any suggestions.
Make a constant.
Also early in laravel, I put in in index, define DS.
defined('DS') || define('DS', DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR);
then something like:
define('ASSET', realpath(dirname(__FILE__)). DS . 'assets' . DS);
Use your folder. I don't even know what addTrailingSlash is, but I will look it up.
Thank you. There must be a better way.
P.S.:
addTrailingSlash is just a helper function I wrote, that ensures a path ends with a "/".
You don't use it in controller, you do:
$destinationPath = ASSET . 'upload/imgdogs';
then something like:
$file->move($destinationPath, $newname);
But why not just use storage with the symlink.
Thank you.
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