Laravel - File Storage - Custom Filesystems

Laravel's Flysystem integration provides support for several "drivers" out of the box; however, Flysystem is not limited to these and has adapters for many other storage systems. You can create a custom driver if you want to use one of these additional adapters in your Laravel application.

In order to define a custom filesystem you will need a Flysystem adapter. Let's add a community maintained Dropbox adapter to our project:

    
    composer require spatie/flysystem-dropbox
	

Next, you can register the driver within the boot method of one of your application's service providers. To accomplish this, you should use the extend method of the Storage facade:

The first argument of the extend method is the name of the driver and the second is a closure that receives the $app and $config variables. The closure must return an instance of League\Flysystem\Filesystem. The $config variable contains the values defined in config/filesystems.php for the specified disk.

Once you have created and registered the extension's service provider, you may use the dropbox driver in your config/filesystems.php configuration file.