Laravel get file content

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Route::get('marquee', function(){
    echo  File::get('\storage\app\marquee.json');
});

I have a json file place inside storage/app

My question is how can I read this content from controller or route?

Where's the file? /storage/app/ implies that it's the the filesystem root. — apokryfos
– apokryfos, Commented Mar 29, 2017 at 11:26

Alexey Mezenin · Accepted Answer · 2020-05-09 06:41:04Z

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Using Storage facade:

Storage::disk('local')->get('marquee.json');

The old way, using File facade (deprecated for Laravel 7):

File::get(storage_path('app/marquee.json'));

edited May 9, 2020 at 6:41

answered Mar 29, 2017 at 11:26

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Jarrett Barnett Over a year ago

For those wanting to access files at the project root (above the storage directory), use: File::get(base_path() . 'marquee.json')

Chris Claude Over a year ago

I am using Laravel 7, File::get() requires an import, what do I import? I want to import data.json from the database/data directory in the project @JarrettBarnett

Jarrett Barnett Over a year ago

Seems File might be deprecated for Laravel 7. Use Storage::get() instead. laravel.com/docs/7.x/filesystem#retrieving-files

Vito Meuli Over a year ago

@ChrisClaude the FIle facade has namespace Illuminate\Support\Facades

Rahman Qaiser · Accepted Answer · 2017-03-29 11:37:20Z

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You can go with the absolute path

\Illuminate\Support\Facades\File::get(base_path() . '/storage/app/marquee.json');

answered Mar 29, 2017 at 11:37

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Jamshid Hashimi Over a year ago

In our Vapor deployed app, we needed to access a json file inside our seeders and no solutions worked, except we putting base_path() in-front of the file path as above. FYI.

Vladimir Makarov · Accepted Answer · 2017-03-29 11:23:15Z

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Try this code

File::get(storage_path('app\marquee.json'));

answered Mar 29, 2017 at 11:23

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Emtiaz Zahid · Accepted Answer · 2017-03-29 11:26:12Z

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You can use storage_path() function for locate the storage folder and then join app folder name like that:

$path = storage_path() . "/app/marquee.json";
echo  File::get($path);

answered Mar 29, 2017 at 11:26

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Adam Pery · Accepted Answer · 2020-04-23 13:08:28Z

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From external source use Http requests, documentation here, eg:

$response = Http::get('http://test.com');

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Hiren Makwana · Accepted Answer · 2017-03-29 11:46:32Z

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You can store files in your storage folder in Laravel:

$path = storage_path() . "/json/${filename}.json";

$json = json_decode(file_get_contents($path), true);

answered Mar 29, 2017 at 11:46

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