How to recover image from Storage folder using INTERVENTION IMAGE Laravel 5.2?

Question

This solution works in Public more folder when switching to Storage folder I can’t grab the image and display in the view someone can help me?

Controller

  public function profile(){
    return view('profile', array('user' => Auth::user()) );
}

public function update_avatar(Request $request){

    if($request->hasFile('avatar')){
        $avatar = $request->file('avatar');
        $filename = time() . '.' . $avatar->getClientOriginalExtension();
        Image::make($avatar)->resize(300, 300)->save( storage_path('/uploads/avatars/' . $filename ) );

        $user = Auth::user();
        $user->avatar = $filename;
        $user->save();
    }
    return  view('profile', array('user' => Auth::user()) );
}

Route

Route::get('profile',
'UserController@profile');

Route::post('profile',
'UserController@update_avatar');

View This was the call I made to return the image when it was in the public folder now that it does not work in the Storage folder, does anyone know how I can take the image from the Storage folder and display in the view?

<img src="/uploads/avatars/{{ Auth::user()->avatar }}">

Repository Gitlab https://gitlab.com/ronnyere/Laravel.git

Answer 1

You will need to create a specific route and controller action to load the images, as the Storage folder is not, or should not be, accessed directly by the browser calls.

For example:

Route

Route::get('/user/picture', 'UserController@getPicture');

Controller

public function getPicture() {
    return \Image::make(file_get_contents('file://'.storage_path('app/fotos/' . Auth::user()->id . 'png')))->response();
}

Vision

<img src="/user/picture">

Note that you need to adapt variable names and file name to your context