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A Laravel package for handling file upload from multiple sources like file object, url or base64 encoded data

Current Features

• file uploading from multiple sources like file object, url or base64 encoded data
• file validation (based on extension and size)
• support for handling multiple files

Upcoming Features

• file compression
• support for file deletion

Requirements

It is recommended to install this package with PHP version 7.2+ and Laravel Framework version 5.5+

Installation

composer require oldravian/multi-source-file-uploader

Configuration

Copy configuration to your project:

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="OldRavian\FileUploader\FileUploaderServiceProvider"

By executing above command the package configuration will be published to config/old-ravian-file-uploader.php

Usage

Firstly, you need to initialize the specific FileUploader instance using FileUploaderFactory

$file_uploader_factory = new \OldRavian\FileUploader\Factories\FileUploaderFactory();
$file_uploader = $file_uploader_factory->build(here you need to provide the file source name, it could be "object", "url" or "base64");

Upload File From Object

In your controller method:

public function uploadFile(Request $request)
{
  $uploadSettings = ["directory"=>"mention directory", "disk"=>"mention disk", "maxFileSize"=>"mention size in bytes", "allowedExtensions"=>[mention extensions]];
  $file_uploader_factory = new \OldRavian\FileUploader\Factories\FileUploaderFactory();
  $file_uploader = $file_uploader_factory->build("object");
   
  //first parameter should be an instance of \Illuminate\Http\UploadedFile
  //second parameter is optional, if you leave that parameter then default settings will be used
  $data = $file_uploader->upload($request->file, $uploadSettings); //it will return an array
}

$uploadSettings is an asociative array with the following possible keys:

• directory: the root directory containing your uploaded files
• disk: the storage disk for file upload. Check Laravel official documentation for more details, e.g: public, s3
• maxFileSize (in bytes): the maximum size of an uploaded file
• allowedExtensions: array of acceptable file extensions, e.g: ['jpg', 'png', 'pdf']

The backend default settings are as follows:

- 'directory': 'media'
- 'disk': 'public'
- 'maxFileSize':  50 MB
- 'allowedExtensions': 'png','jpg','jpeg','mp4','doc','docx','ppt','pptx','xls','xlsx','txt','pdf'

You can change these default settings by using the following environment variables in .env:

• OLDRAVIAN_File_UPLOADER_DEFAULT_DISK
• OLDRAVIAN_File_UPLOADER_DEFAULT_DIRECTORY
• OLDRAVIAN_File_UPLOADER_DEFAULT_MAX_FILE_SIZE (in bytes)

If the upload succeeds,$file_uploader->upload($request->file, $uploadSettings) will return the following data for being further persisted to database:

[
    'filename' => 'uploaded file name',
    'path' => 'path to file location relative to the disk storage',
    'url' => 'public url to access the file in browser'
]

If the uploaded file is not valid, then false will be returned and an error message will be set for $file_uploader->uploadError

Upload File From URL

$file_uploader_factory = new \OldRavian\FileUploader\Factories\FileUploaderFactory();
$file_uploader = $file_uploader_factory->build("url");

//first parameter should be a string url
//second parameter is optional, if you leave that parameter then default settings will be used
$data = $file_uploader->upload($request->url, $uploadSettings);

Upload File From Base64 Encoded data

$file_uploader_factory = new \OldRavian\FileUploader\Factories\FileUploaderFactory();
$file_uploader = $file_uploader_factory->build("base64");

//first parameter should be a string (base64 encoded string)
//second parameter is optional, if you leave that parameter then default settings will be used
$data = $file_uploader->upload($request->base64_str, $uploadSettings);

Handling Multiple File Uploads

$file_uploader_factory = new \OldRavian\FileUploader\Factories\FileUploaderFactory();
$file_uploader = $file_uploader_factory->build("object or url or base64");

$urls_array = ["first file url", "second file url", "third file url"];
//first parameter should be an array (it could be an array of objects or urls or base64 encoded strings array based on what you mentioned in the above line)
//second parameter is optional, if you leave that parameter then default settings will be used
$data_array = $file_uploader->uploadMany($urls_array, $uploadSettings); //$data_array is a 2d array