My laravel application successfully uploads and stores my files where I want them to. However, I don't want to store the public url of the file in the database, and instead get them on the fly (they're stored in my public
directory) and show a list of links to the uploads.
How can I retrieve File objects from just the strings returned by File::files(public_path() . "/files/uploads");
so I can get the name, size, modified date, etc?
Thanks in advance for any help!