Laravel Accessing Images Stored in Storage Directory

Question

I want to access some images to display in a blade file, but they're stored in /storage/app/content/img.

I've come across a few other posts using symbolic links , but their solutions haven't worked for me.

BLADE FILE

<td>
  @if( !empty($entry->{$column['name']}) )
    <a href="storage/app/content/img/filename.jpg">
      <img src="storage/app/content/img/filename.jpg"/>
    </a>
</td>

WHEN I TRIED SYMBOLIC LINKS - ROUTE

Route::get('/img/{filename}', function ($filename)
{
    $path = storage_path() . '/app/content/img/' . $filename;

    if(!File::exists($path)) abort(404);

    $file = File::get($path);
    $type = File::mimeType($path);

    $response = Response::make($file, 200);
    $response->header("Content-Type", $type);
    return $response;
})->name('avatar');

BLADE FILE

<td>
  @if( !empty($entry->{$column['name']}) )
    <a href="/img/filename.jpg">
      <img src="/img/filename.jpg"/>
    </a>
</td>

Did you try printing out `$path` and making sure that path exists? — Devon Bessemer, Oct 11 '17 at 20:22
With the route thing I get: SignatureException in Signature.php line 42: Signature is missing. — Casey, Oct 11 '17 at 20:24
It's your code, shouldn't you know where $path resides? (The route). You have two different examples here, I'm referring to the bottom one. The top one won't work unless storage resides in public/. However, it's a bad idea to create a symlink from public/storage to storage since storage contains a lot of files you likely don't want to publicly expose. — Devon Bessemer, Oct 11 '17 at 20:28
Secondly, why don't you just put these files in the public folder rather than storage? — Devon Bessemer, Oct 11 '17 at 20:30
I meant for printing it, but I figured it out.I can't answer that, picking up the project after somebody else already organized that stuff — Casey, Oct 11 '17 at 20:37
You can't change that logic to save to the public folder instead? — Devon Bessemer, Oct 11 '17 at 20:42
Not sure what that might break. Its using Glide image library which is all set up to the storage directory — Casey, Oct 11 '17 at 20:48
Well, you could always create a symlink in the reverse direction after you move it.. (from storage to public) Apache or the web server may have issues with symlinks but the filesystem shouldn't. — Devon Bessemer, Oct 11 '17 at 20:51
@cvassios was the symlink created successfully? If yes what do you have in the symlink (storage) folder in your public directory? — Ewomazino Ukah, Oct 11 '17 at 21:46
did you load url in browser ? and also tried dd($path) in your route file. — ankit patel, Oct 11 '17 at 22:37

score -1 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 12 '17 at 10:28

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I would suggest you use the asset helper:

asset('img/file.png');

answered Oct 12 '17 at 10:28

Raza Mehdi

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How would this help/what does it do? Laravel documentation on it is pretty vague – Casey Oct 12 '17 at 20:01

Laravel Accessing Images Stored in Storage Directory

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