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A Laravel package that provides an interactive way to create symbolic links for all your storage disks with local drivers.

Recent Updates (v1.0.1)

🔧 Fixed: Resolved symbolic link creation issues by replacing hard link creation with proper symbolic links using native PHP symlink() function.

Features

• 🔗 Interactive symlink creation with disk selection
• 📋 Display all available local disks in a table format
• ⚡ Create symlinks for all local disks with --all flag
• 🗑️ Remove existing symlinks with --remove flag
• 🔄 Force recreation of existing symlinks with --force flag
• ✅ Real-time symlink status checking
• 🛡️ Safe error handling and validation

Installation

You can install the package via composer:

composer require aisuvro/laravel-storage-linker

The package will automatically register itself via Laravel's package discovery feature.

Usage

Interactive Mode

Run the command without any flags to see all available local disks and select which ones to link:

php artisan storage:link-all

This will show you a table with:

• Disk name
• Root path
• Current symlink status

You can then select one or multiple disks to create symlinks for.

Create All Symlinks

To create symlinks for all local disks at once:

php artisan storage:link-all --all

Remove Symlinks

To remove all existing symlinks:

php artisan storage:link-all --remove

Force Recreation

To force recreation of symlinks (even if they already exist):

php artisan storage:link-all --all --force

How It Works

The package scans your config/filesystems.php file for all disks with the local driver and creates symbolic links in the public/storage/{disk-name} directory pointing to the disk's root path.

Example

If you have these disks configured:

// config/filesystems.php
'disks' => [
    'local' => [
        'driver' => 'local',
        'root' => storage_path('app'),
    ],
    'public' => [
        'driver' => 'local',
        'root' => storage_path('app/public'),
    ],
    'uploads' => [
        'driver' => 'local',
        'root' => storage_path('app/uploads'),
    ],
    's3' => [
        'driver' => 's3',
        // ... s3 config (will be ignored)
    ],
],

The package will create:

• public/storage/local → storage/app
• public/storage/public → storage/app/public
• public/storage/uploads → storage/app/uploads

The S3 disk will be ignored since it's not a local driver.

Requirements

• PHP ^8.1
• Laravel ^9.0|^10.0|^11.0|^12.0

Testing

composer test

Changelog

Please see CHANGELOG for more information on what has changed recently.

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please feel free to submit a Pull Request.

Security Vulnerabilities

If you discover a security vulnerability, please send an e-mail to info@appenjel.com.

Credits

• Md. Al Imran Suvro
• All Contributors

License

The MIT License (MIT). Please see License File for more information.