Laravel check for asset existence
Solution 1
It would be better to handle this from the webserver, as just because the file exists, doesn't mean it'll be accessible to the public web. Also means you're not repeating code all over the place to check if the file exists see: Replace invalid image url with 404 image
However this can be done PHP wise
@if (file_exists(public_path('path/to/asset.png')))
<img src="{{ asset('path/to/asset.png') }}">
@else
<img src="{{ asset('path/to/missing.png') }}">
@endif
Solution 2
Well aside from using native php
methods here
You could use:
if (File::exists($myfile)){ ... }
However, you should note that asset(...)
will return an absolute URL to the asset, but you need to check its existence on the file system, so you'll need a path like:
$img = path('public').'/path/to/image.png';
Alex
Updated on June 09, 2022Comments
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Alex almost 2 years
I would like to check whether an asset {{ asset }} exists before trying to output the file.
I have tried a few things after some google-ing, but none seem to work on Laravel 5.0.
An example of what i would imagine the request (in a frontend blade view) to look like;
@if(asset(path-to-asset)) <img src="image-path"/> @else <img src="no-image-path"/> @endif
Thanks