How to Check folder exist and Create Nested Folder in Laravel ?

This article will guide you to Check folder exist and Create Nested Folder in Laravel. To perform the file system based operations like Check folder exist and Create a Nested Folder. we use File class in laravel. Laravel provides inbuilt library to access the file system and we can do multiple robust operations using the libraries. In this tutorial i will show you to make a directory in laravel and also i will show you to create nested folder in using the library. If we perform same operations using the core php functions than it can be a hectic or lengthy code to implement but using the packages or library it will be easier to implement.

In this article I will use Illuminate\Filesystem\Filesystem class and facade File::makeDirectory() method to create the new directory in the folder. makeDirectory Method accepts four parameters as below

File::makeDirectory($path, $mode, $recursive, $force)

Example Usage:

File::makeDirectory(public("images/user/1"), 0777, true);

Here I called makeDirectory with 3 parameters first parameter tells to create the nested folder as images > user > 1, second parameter for permission of the folder and third for creating the recursive folders so in nutshell

$path : Path of directory to create.

$mode : Permission of folders

$recursive : Create directory recursively

$force : To create directory forcefully

Let’s understand it with example step by step

Step 1: Create a fresh laravel project

Open a terminal window and type below command to create a new project

composer create-project --prefer-dist laravel/laravel blog

You can also read this to start with new project

Step 2 : Create controller

Let’s create a controller and add method checkAndCreateDirectory

php artisan make:controller FolderController

and add the below code

<?php

namespace App\Http\Controllers;

use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use File;
class FolderController extends Controller
{
    public function checkAndCreateDirectory(Request $request){
        
        if($request->folder_name!=''){
            $storageDestinationPath=storage_path('app/'.$request->folder_name);
         
            if (!File::exists( $storageDestinationPath)) {
                File::makeDirectory($storageDestinationPath, 0755, true);
            }
            return response("Folder created successfully");
         }
  
      }
}

In above code First of all we are checking the directory is exist or not then if not available then we are creating the directory at the location.

Step 3: Create two routes in routes/web.php

Create a route to create the directory

routes/web.php

<?php

use App\Http\Controllers\FolderController;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Route;

Route::get("/create-directory",[FolderController::class,"checkAndCreateDirectory"]);