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Wallace Maxters
Wallace Maxters

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Protect user uploads with Laravel

In the Laravel, you can protect your uploaded files access, restricting by authenticated user, with a simple code.

Move the uploaded file to local disk:

$path = $request->file('file')->store('photos', ['disk' => 'local']);
return Photo::create(['path' => $path]);
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Route::get('photo/{id}', function (Photo $photo) {

    $disk = Storage::disk('local');

    return response($disk->get($photo->path), 200, [
        'content-type' => $disk->mimeType($photo->path)
    ]);

})->middleware('auth');
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Guilherme Nascimento

Does this isolate files between different users? Maybe using something with Illuminate\Auth\Access\HandlesAuthorization or controlling it by the Model itself is better or even using the user ID as a subfolder could solve.