creating a folder once user registred laravel 5 - laravel-5

Question

I would like to create a folder inside Storage folder in Laravel 5, once you register and pick your username, a folder with that user will be created for you.
If you created user : john5500 a folder inside Storage will be created with 'john5500' and will belong only to that user.

Answer 1

Mark, see the code below.
This code I use to create a new user in my database.
Information about ManagementCreateRequest $Request can be found via this URL.
Laravel Controller Validation
In short I'm validating my input via Controller Validation in Laravel.
After the validation passes I get all the data from the validation in the variable $Request.
After that I create the user as below. After creating the user I send a redirect to the management page. This page contains an overview of all the users in the database.
public function store(ManagementCreateRequest $Request)
{
// Create user
Management::create($Request->all());
// Return view
return redirect('management')
->with('Success', 'User created.');
}
If I would to create a directory I would do it like this.
public function store(ManagementCreateRequest $Request)
{
// Create user
Management::create($Request->all());
// Create directory
File::MakeDirectory('/path/to/directory' . $Request->username);
// Return view
return redirect('management')
->with('Success', 'User created.');
}
Replace /path/to/directory with the actual path to your storage directory.
For example: Under CentOS my storage directory would be.
/var/www/Site Name/storage
Don't forget to replace 'Site Name' with the name of your Laravel site.
More detailed information about File:makeDirectory can be found via this link:
Laravel Creating Directory

Answer 2

Lravel 5 comes with an excellent filesystem. You could simply do:
Storage::makeDirectory($directory);
See the documentation for more details: http://laravel.com/docs/5.0/filesystem#basic-usage

Answer 3

You can use Laravel File Facade:
File::makeDirectory($path, $mode = 0755, $recursive = false, $force = false);
Ensure storage is writable
public function create(array $data)
{
//return
$user = User::create([
'name' => $data['name'],
'username'=>$data['username'],
'email' => $data['email'],
'password' => bcrypt($data['password']),
]);
\File::makeDirectory(storage_path($data['username']));
return $user;
}