How to get contents of a file in Laravel 5.1

Question

I am trying to get content of all the files in my directory and I am getting an error that says

ErrorException in Util.php line 114: preg_match() expects parameter 2 to be string, array given

. Below is the code that I am using.

public function store(Request $request)
{
    $directory = storage_path('app/xmlentries/uploads');
    $files = File::files($directory);
    foreach ($files as $file)        
    {
        $contents = Storage::get($file);
        dd($contents);        
    }

How would i get the contents of all my files in this folder?

Answer 1

Try this:

$directory = storage_path('app/xmlentries/uploads/');

foreach (glob($directory . "*") as $file) {
    $fileContent = file_get_contents($file);
    dd($fileContent); // change this per your need
}

Please note this will display the first file and then stop!