How to iterate and search the content of files in public/storage/?

Question

I have a set of text files inside public/storage/ and I need to search their content, I tried to tailor this answer to work in Laravel but with no success

public function search($query)
{
    $dir = new \DirectoryIterator(public_path('public'));

    foreach ($dir as $file) {
        return $file;
        $content = file_get_contents(public_path($file));
        if (strpos($content, $query) !== false) {
            return 'yes';
        } else {
            return 'no';
        }
    }
}

I believe the problem with the code is that I don't know how Laravel accesses paths.

File structure in Laravel:

project
│
└───public
    │
    └───storage
        │ 
        │ file1.txt
        │ file2.txt
        │ ...
        └───

Do you have other files in your storage directory? Seems like a bad idea to try to read every single file. — Devon Bessemer, Aug 30 '18 at 13:11
@Devon yes there are other files, but my plan is to put the text files inside a dedicated directory — Saleh Rezq, Aug 30 '18 at 13:19
@IvankaTodorova I added the file structure of Laravel `public/storage` — Saleh Rezq, Aug 30 '18 at 13:31

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 30 '18 at 13:10

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This should work the way you intent to check the contents of each file:

$dir = new \DirectoryIterator(public_path('storage'));

foreach ($dir as $file) {
    if ($file->isFile()) {
        $content = file_get_contents($file->getRealPath());

        if (str_contains($content, $query)) {
            return 'yes';
        }
    }
}

return 'no';

answered Aug 30 '18 at 13:10

thefallen

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It is a bad practice to return strings. – Ivanka Todorova Aug 30 '18 at 13:11
@IvankaTodorova, this is added just for testing, the OP probably needs the full file contents or true/false. – thefallen Aug 30 '18 at 13:12

Ivanka Todorova · Answer 2 · 2018-08-30T14:16:03.140

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If you want to get the path to public/storage, you need to call public_path('storage').

Also you could use glob(), but that depends on your folder/file structure.

Example:

$files = glob(public_path('/storage') . '/*.txt');

This will return an array of all files that have .txt extension in public/storage/.

If those files are in folders inside public/storage you need to recursively get all those files.

edited Aug 30 '18 at 14:16

answered Aug 30 '18 at 13:16

Ivanka Todorova

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How to iterate and search the content of files in public/storage/?

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