How to return files from s3 bucket as image in laravel?

@lindsey.homenick 

To return files from an S3 bucket as an image in Laravel, you can use the Laravel's Storage facade to interact with the S3 bucket and retrieve the image file. Here's an example code snippet to help you achieve this:

1. First, make sure you have set up the S3 disk driver in your config/filesystems.php configuration file. Here is an example configuration:

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's3' => [
    'driver' => 's3',
    'key'    => env('AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID'),
    'secret' => env('AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY'),
    'region' => env('AWS_DEFAULT_REGION'),
    'bucket' => env('AWS_BUCKET'),
],

1. Next, you can use the following code to retrieve the image file from the S3 bucket and return it as a response in your controller method:

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use IlluminateSupportFacadesStorage;

public function getImageFromS3Bucket($fileName)
{
    $image = Storage::disk('s3')->get($fileName);

    return response($image, 200)->header('Content-Type', 'image/jpeg');
}

1. In your routes/web.php file, define the route for accessing the image file:

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Route::get('/s3-image/{fileName}', 'YourController@getImageFromS3Bucket');

1. Finally, you can access the image file by visiting the URL /s3-image/{fileName}, where {fileName} is the name of the image file in your S3 bucket.

That's it! You should now be able to retrieve image files from your S3 bucket and display them in your Laravel application.