problem statement
When you store files like pictures, videos, or other files, yo do not store them in the public folder but in a private folder that is not publicly accessible. Because only certain users should have access to the files.
How can you output multiple images from a private folder?
solution 1
To speed up you could do it via plain PHP (headers + read file):
header('Content-Type: image/jpeg');
header('Content-Length: ' . filesize($thumbnail));
readfile($thumbnail);
exit;You can keep it to Laravel-style type code then something like this would do just fine
$headers = [
'Content-Type' => 'image/jpeg', // if single type if not determine type
'Content-Length' => filesize($thumbnail),
];
return response()->file($thumbnail, $headers);You can optimize this with caching headers and any other flavor stuff.
