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Upload large files to S3 using Laravel 5

Original – by Freek Van der Herten – 1 minute read

Chris Blackwell yesterday published a tutorial on how to upload files to S3 using Laravel.

This is the code he used (slightly redacted):

$disk= Storage::disk('s3');

$disk->put($targetFile, file_get_contents($sourceFile));

This is a good way to go about it for small files. You should note that file_get_contents will load the entire file into memory before sending it to S3. This can be problematic for large files.

If you want to upload big files you should use streams. Here's the code to do it:

$disk = Storage::disk('s3');

$disk->put($targetFile, fopen($sourceFile, 'r+'));

PHP will only require a few MB of RAM even if you upload a file of several GB.

You can also use streams to download a file from S3 to the local file system:

$disk = Storage::disk('s3');

$stream = $disk
   ->getDriver()
   ->readStream($sourceFileOnS3);

file_put_contents($targetFile, stream_get_contents($stream), FILE_APPEND);

You can even use streams to copy file from one disk to another without touching the local filesystem:

$stream = Storage::disk('s3')->getDriver()
                             ->readStream($sourceFile);

Storage::disk('sftp')->put($targetFile, $stream);

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Sam Serrien liked on 15th November 2019
Freek Van der Herten replied on 13th November 2019
Think so, yes
nick breens liked on 13th November 2019
Joren Van Hocht replied on 13th November 2019
Laravel Medialibrary is using the same approach if I analysed the code correctly, is it?
Joren Van Hocht liked on 13th November 2019
Joren Van Hocht replied on 13th November 2019
I think this was the first thing I read when searching my self, but still thanks ?