How to get files list from public folder Laravel

Question

I have images in my public folder (NOT STORAGE) :

And I want to get all these files in a list and for each one, I do something ... How can I do that?

Possible duplicate of [Getting the names of all files in a directory with PHP](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2922954/getting-the-names-of-all-files-in-a-directory-with-php) — MyLibary, Jan 13 '19 at 19:26
Ahh! But I use laravel? can you put your answer if you want :) — Saif Manwill, Jan 13 '19 at 19:28

Mozammil · Accepted Answer · 2019-01-13T21:20:54.123

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You could do this in one line:

use File;

$files = File::files(public_path());

// If you would like to retrieve a list of 
// all files within a given directory including all sub-directories    
$files = File::allFiles(public_path());

For more info, check the documentation.

Edit: The documentation is confusing. It seems, you would need to use the File Facade instead. I will investigate a bit more, but it seems to be working now.

Also, the result will be an array of SplFileInfo objects.

edited Jan 13 '19 at 21:20

answered Jan 13 '19 at 19:30

Mozammil

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but I mean public in my script not Storage path :) – Saif Manwill Jan 13 '19 at 20:39
Edited my answer. – Mozammil Jan 13 '19 at 21:21
but how can I get, just name of my file? – Saif Manwill Jan 13 '19 at 21:27
You would do a foreach loop and then to get the filename, you can just do $file->getFilename(); – Mozammil Jan 13 '19 at 21:38
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Ok, I've used `getFileName()` - Thanks :) – Saif Manwill Jan 13 '19 at 21:38

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 05 '20 at 21:42

Solution 1 for Laravel


public function index()
{
    $path = public_path('test');
    $files = File::allFiles($path);

    dd($files);
}

Solution 2 for Laravel


public function index()
{
    $path = public_path('test');
    $files = File::files($path);

    dd($files);
}

Solution for PHP


public function index()
{
    $path = public_path('demo');
    $files = scandir($path);
    dd($files);
}

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Jan 13 '19 at 20:48

Solved! I've used this function and it's work :

// GET PUBLIC FOLDER FILES (NAME)
if ($handle = opendir(public_path('img'))) {

    while (false !== ($entry = readdir($handle))) {
        if ($entry != "." && $entry != "..") {
            echo $entry."<br>"; // NAME OF THE FILE
        }
    }
    closedir($handle);
}

Thanks @MyLibary :)

javad m · Answer 4 · 2020-03-29T16:52:09.033

If you mean the public folder that is not in the STORAGE folder, but, if you want to handle this with Laravel Storage (Laravel Filesystem), You can define this folder as a Disk for filesystem and use it as follow.

In the filesystem config config/filesystems.php, disks part add this code:

'disks' => [

        ...

        'public_site' => [
            'driver' => 'local',
            'root' => public_path(''),
            'visibility' => 'public',
        ],

        ...
    ],

And then you can use this commands in your app:

$contents = Storage::get('img/file.jpg');

or to get list of files:

$files = Storage::files('img');

$files = Storage::allFiles('img');

More details about Laravel Storage (Laravel Filesystem) is here: https://laravel.com/docs/5.8/filesystem

Note : If you changed Public folder you can use base_path() in the Disk definition with relative Path as follow (Otherwise don't use it):

'disks' => [

        ...

        'public_site' => [
            'driver' => 'local',
            'root' => base_path('../../public'),
            'visibility' => 'public',
        ],

        ...
    ],

How to get files list from public folder Laravel

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