How do you get the path to the Laravel Storage folder?

Question

I want to store uploaded images to my Laravel-based web app in a subdirectory of the Laravel storage directory. It's the directory at the same hierarchy level as the 'application' and 'public' directories.

Is there a framework method for doing this? I've searched the docs but can't find one.

Answer 1

In Laravel 3, call path('storage').

In Laravel 4, use the storage_path() helper function.

Answer 2

For Laravel 5.x, use $storage_path = storage_path().

From the Laravel 5.0 docs:

storage_path

Get the fully qualified path to the storage directory.

Note also that, for Laravel 5.1 and above, per the Laravel 5.1 docs:

You may also use the storage_path function to generate a fully qualified path to a given file relative to the storage directory:

$path = storage_path('app/file.txt');