How to Create File Object from Path in Laravel?

In this tutorial, i will show you how to create file object in laravel. you'll learn laravel create file object from path. we will help you to give example of how to create image object from path in laravel. I’m going to show you about laravel create image object from path.

Follow bellow tutorial example to create file object from url in laravel 6, laravel 7, laravel 8, laravel 9, laravel 10 and laravel 11.

Whenever you need to create file object from absolute path in laravel then this post will help you to creating image object from url in laravel. sometime we need to store image into folder using storage then you need to create file object from path. Then that object can be use.

So let's see bellow controller code and output as bellow:

Controller Code:

<?php
  
namespace App\Http\Controllers;
  
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\File\UploadedFile;
  
class FileController extends Controller
{
    /**
     * The attributes that are mass assignable.
     *
     * @var array
     */
    public function create()
    {
        $fileObject = $this->createFileObject(public_path('datatable-angular.png'));
  
        dd($fileObject);           
    }
  
    /**
     * The attributes that are mass assignable.
     *
     * @var array
     */
    public function createFileObject($url){
  
        $path_parts = pathinfo($url);
  
        $newPath = $path_parts['dirname'] . '/tmp-files/';
        if(!is_dir ($newPath)){
            mkdir($newPath, 0777);
        }
  
        $newUrl = $newPath . $path_parts['basename'];
        copy($url, $newUrl);
        $imgInfo = getimagesize($newUrl);
  
        $file = new UploadedFile(
            $newUrl,
            $path_parts['basename'],
            $imgInfo['mime'],
            filesize($url),
            true,
            TRUE
        );
  
        return $file;
    }
}

Output:

I hope it can help you...