PHP Laravel read files from another drive

Question

I'm currently in the learning curve of Laravel. I was wondering if there is a way using the Storage:: in Laravel to access files from another harddrive (using Windows).

Example, I've got Xampp with Laravel setup on drive C:, but I want to access files on E: outside of website directory. I've tried using Storage::files('E:') and File::files('E:') but that clearly doesn't work.

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Not tested this myself, but from the documentation page, i take it you need to edit the filesystem.php config file to something like:

'disks' => [
    'local' => [
        'driver' => 'local',
        'root'   => storage_path('app'),
    ],
    'partitionE' => [
        'driver' => 'local',
        'root'   => 'E:/', // not really sure about this
    ]
    // the rest of it
];

And then accessing files like

Storage::disk('partitionE')->put('file.txt', 'Contents');

If all this fails, you could go with a symlink and create a link to your E: inside your project folder.