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Inline image on Laravel 51 min read

You probably know the  Response::inline()  method from Laravel 4.

Really useful for to show inline images and files, but this method is not longer available in Laravel 5 .

I’ve created the following function to get inline image on Laravel 5.

Add the following namespaces to your class:

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use File;
use Illuminate\Http\Response;

Add the following function to your controller or internal class:

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/**
* Display file directly on browser
* @author Victor Cruz
*
* @param string $path File path
*/
function inline($path)
{
    if (!File::exists($path))
        throw new Exception("File does not exist");        
 
    $filetype = File::mimeType($path);
    $response = Response( File::get($path), 200 );
    $response->header('Content-Type', $filetype);
    return $response;
}

Finally call the function from your controller:

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/**
* Controller method
*
*/
public function index()
{      
    return $this->inline("/path/to/file.jpg");
}

 

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