How to display all files in a directory in my view

Which directory should I point to? Do I use asset() in the same way as when I link to my app.css? Do I link directly to www.mydomain.com/storage/images?

@thecelebratedmrk You should point to whatever directory you store your files in.

Where do I add the $files = Storage::allFiles($directory);

You could do this in the controller, and then pass the array of files to your Blade view. You would then just do a @​foreach over your array of files.

However, this probably isn’t what you want to do if you’re uploading say, 2MB images. Ideally, you should process images and create appropriately-sized thumbnails of uploaded images if you’re building a photo gallery, and then show a larger-sized images when the user selects a thumbnail.

An image gallery is only one of the applications I want to use this script for. To make it a bit easier: Let's say I just want to display a list of PDF-files, and link to them.

Here's what I have so far:

PagesController.php

namespace App\Http\Controllers;

use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Storage;

class PagesController extends Controller
{
    public function files() {
        $directory =  'storage/pdfs';
        $storage = Storage::allFiles($directory);
        $data = array(
            'title' => 'All files',
            'files' => $storage
        );
        return view('inc.file')->with($data);
    }
}

file.blade.php

<h1 class="title has-text-white">{{ $title }}</h1>
      <div class="columns is-centered">
          @foreach($files as $file)
            <div class="column is-3">
              <div class="box">
                <a href="" class="button is-primary">{{$file}}</a>
              </div>
            </div>
          @endforeach

      </div>

It displays the title, but nothing happens with the foreach-loop. When try to use count() to measure the length of $storage it shows 0, even though the directory contains many files.

Have I forgotten to include or install some package? Is something wrong with my path? I've scratched my head on this for hours now.

I'm unfortunately still stuck on this problem. Any ideas @martinbean ?