How to Get Path in Laravel Application Root?

Hello Artisan,

Now, let's see a tutorial of how to get path in laravel. This article goes in detailed on how to get public path in laravel. let’s discuss about how to get base path in laravel. I would like to show you how to get storage folder path in laravel. Alright, let’s dive into the details.

Laravel provide several helper to get path of public directory, app directory, storage directory and base directory. It will help to store files, read file from path and also for other from controller, view files, model etc.

You can see as bellow how to get path of that directory using helper one by one.

How to Get Public Folder Path in Laravel?

public_path(); // /var/www/example-app/public

How to Get Base Path(Project Root) in Laravel?

base_path(); // /var/www/example-app

How to Get Storage Folder Path in Laravel?

storage_path(); // /var/www/example-app/storage

How to Get App Folder Path in Laravel?

app_path(); // /var/www/example-app/app

I hope it can help you...