How to save image in laravel storage directory

Question

I need to save the image which was converted using base64 to the storage directory instead of saving it inside the public folder,

Here is my store function which saves the image into my public directory,

public function store(Request $request, Category $category)
{
    if ($request->image) {
        $name = time().'.'. explode('/', explode(':',substr($request->image, 0, strpos($request->image, ';')))[1])[1];

        Image::make($request->image)->save(public_path('img/category/').$name);

    return response('success');
}

I need to know how i can save the images into my storage folder,

Answer 1

As described in the Laravel 8 official documentation , on my local laravel installation, I have imported the following:

use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Storage;

And then in the store method:

Storage::disk('local')->put(time() . '.' . 'example.txt', 'Contents');

It stores the file into storage/app and not into the public directory.