How to show image from storage folder in Laravel 5.3?

Question

I have a folder in Laravel 5.3 project located in storage and it contains image files.

How can i show image from that folder?

I have all the names with

Storage::allFiles('images');

I can't access them in the usual way due to a folder permissions and i don't want to change them. I also don't want to put the files in Public directory.

Any suggestions? Thanks in advance.

John Corry · Accepted Answer · 2016-11-28 19:09:31Z

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You could write a controller function to return the image...something like:

public function image($file){
    $image = storage_path('images/' . $file);

    if(!File::exists( $image ))
        App::abort(404);

    // using Intervention Image package
    return Image::make($image)->response('jpg');

    // using Laravel file response
    $headers = ['Content-Type' => 'image/jpeg'];
    return response()->file($image, $headers);
}

Of course this is very bare bones...you could spruce it up to resize on demand, examine mime types and return the correct response type based on that, etc.

edited Nov 28, 2016 at 19:09

answered Nov 28, 2016 at 18:33

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Ivan Draganinski Over a year ago

And for every image i should call this function?

John Corry Over a year ago

Yah, you'd have a route set up: Route::get('/image/{file}', 'ImageController@image'); so when you make a GET request to /image it'd serve through this function.

John Corry Over a year ago

btw, for similar use case as this, I have had really good results from the Intervention Image package. image.intervention.io

John Corry Over a year ago

Oh whoops! I guess my example did use the Intervention image package...you could easily rewrite it to just deliver an image response... return response()->file($image, $headers);

John Corry Over a year ago

You'd add a route (like I mentioned in my first comment) to access the image by URL...use that route in your img src attribute.

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