Using s3 storage in Laravel

Getting Amazon S3 storage working in Laravel has caused me a few headaches today, so I thought I’d blog about how I got it working for others (and future reference for myself!).

I started of with a tutorial which pointed me at the wrong version of the Amazon s3 adapter, but a quick check of the Laravel 5.1 Filesystem documentation revealed I’d got the wrong version, I needed league/flysystem-aws-s3-v3 ~1.0

I then setup the relevant details in the config/filesystems.php:

    'cloud' => 's3',

...

        's3' => [
            'driver' => 's3',
            'key'    => 'KEY',
            'secret' => 'SECRET',
            'region' => 'REGION',
            'bucket' => 'BUCKET',
        ],

Then I simply set this up as a test in routes.php:

use Illuminate\Contracts\Filesystem\Cloud;

Route::get('test', function(Cloud $filesystem){

    $directories = $filesystem->directories('/');
    dd($directories);
});

Hooray, all working. Leaving this here for anyone that might need it!

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