How to get files list from public folder Laravel

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?

4 Answers

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.

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 :)

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:

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', ], ... ],

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);
}