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Eloquent model which manages files easily

$file = $request->file('file');
$userFile = new UserFile;
$userFile->saveFromUploadedFile($file);

$userFile->getContent(); // the content in the $file

Installation

In your composer.json,

"matchingood/laravel-eloquent-storage": "^0.2.1"

Then you register EloquentStorage at config/app.php.

'providers' => [
    .
    .
    .
    MatchinGood\EloquentStorage\EloquentStorageServiceProvider::class
],

You can create the configuration file to execute

$ php artisan vendor:publish

Then you can configure app/eloquentstorage.php

Usage

First of all, you have to add 3 specific columns on the tables you want to let it manage file.

// original file name
$table->string('file_name');

// unique file name to avoid conflicting original names
$table->string('unique_file_name');

// directory to store directory information
// for using directory parameters on saveConent or saveUploadedFile
$table->string('directory');

Then, you can enable eloquet models to manage files by using MatchinGood\EloquentStorage.

class UserFile extends MatchinGood\EloquentStorage\EloquentStorage
{

}

There are 2 ways to store files through EloquentStorage.

$userFile = new UserFile;

// 1. store text
$userFile->saveContent('file name', 'content');

// 2. store uploaded file
$file = $request->file('file');
$userFile->saveFromUploadedFile($file);

// you can add root directory like below
// in this case with local driver,
// it's gonna be stored at storage/app/root/user_files/xxxxxx
$userFile->saveFromUploadedFile($file, 'root');

Then you can check the new record on the table and the new file you saved at storage/user_files/xxxxxxx.

This library also provides response macros.

$userFile = UserFile::find(1);

return response()->downloadEloquentStorage($userFile);