Displaying an image from a storage folder in web development involves retrieving the image file from the storage location and rendering it on the web page. The specific steps involved will depend on the programming language, framework, and server environment being used.
In this tutorial, we will learn how to display image from Storage folder in Laravel. To display an image from the storage folder in Laravel, you can follow these steps:
Upload the image file to the storage/app/public
directory or any other location within the storage folder. You can use the Storage
facade to store the file. For example:
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Storage;
// ...
$imagePath = $request->file('image')->store('public/images');
Laravel does not allow direct access to files stored in the storage folder for security reasons. To make the images accessible, you need to create a symbolic link from the public
folder to the storage
folder. Run the following command in your terminal:
php artisan storage:link
This will create a symbolic link from public/storage
to storage/app/public
.
In your view file, use the asset()
helper function to generate the URL for the image. The asset()
function generates the full URL to the image using the symbolic link. For example:
<img src="{{ asset('storage/images/image.jpg') }}" alt="Image">
Replace storage/images/image.jpg
with the actual path to your image file within the storage
folder.
By following these steps, you can display an image from the storage folder in Laravel. The symbolic link ensures that the image can be accessed through a publicly accessible URL, allowing it to be displayed in your views.