How to get all the contents of a file in Laravel

Question:

How to get all the contents of a file in Laravel

Solution:

First Use Laravel File Facades function Use File at top of the class. Like,

use File;

Then

File::get($file_name);

Real Life example of determining if a file is in that folder and then get the content of that file

$file_name = 'images/students/1200.jpg';
if(File::exists($file_name))
{
    $contents = File::get($file_name);
}

Now see what's in the backend ? Laravel Core function of get() is -

    /**
     * Get the contents of a file.
     *
     * @param  string  $path
     * @param  bool  $lock
     * @return string
     *
     * @throws \Illuminate\Contracts\Filesystem\FileNotFoundException
     */
    public function get($path, $lock = false)
    {
        if ($this->isFile($path)) {
            return $lock ? $this->sharedGet($path) : file_get_contents($path);
        }

        throw new FileNotFoundException("File does not exist at path {$path}");
    }

So, Laravel get() function use it's own is_file() function first and then throws an exception if there is no file in that directory.


So, we can now easily get all of the file contents of any file. That may be a jpg, png, pdf or any kinds of file. It's a pretty one line function.



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