Local File Cache for Laravel 5

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This package allows you to cache remote files in the local filesystem. This is useful if you try to reduce bandwidth consumption when requesting files from services like Amazon S3.

The implementation also enables you to serve files from cache that may not be available at their remote location at times.

Install it

To install this package include it in your composer.json and run composer update:

"require": {
   "offline/laravel-local-cache": "~1.0"
}

Add the Service Provider to the provider array in your config/app.php

'Offline\LocalCache\LocalCacheServiceProvider'

Add an alias for the facade to your config/app.php

'LocalCache' => 'Offline\LocalCache\Facades\LocalCache',

Publish the config:

$ php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Offline\LocalCache\LocalCacheServiceProvider"

Create the directory storage/localcache (edit the storage_path setting in config/localcache.php to change this location).

Use it

To cache a file use the getCachedHtml method. The file will be downloaded and stored to disk. The method returns the local URL for your file.

$string = 'http://www.offlinegmbh.ch/file.jpg';
    
// returns http://yoursite/cache/{hash}
var_dump(LocalCache::getCachedHtml($string));

By default, a /cache/{hash} route is generated which serves the file's contents with the correct mime type. To change the route, edit the route setting in config/localcache.php.

The getCachedHtml method works with any string that contains any number of URLs. It extracts and replaces the links accordingly.

$string = '<p>http://www.offlinegmbh.ch/file.jpg</p><p>http://www.offlinegmbh.ch/file2.jpg</p>';
    
// <p>http://yoursite/cache/{hash1}</p><p>http://yoursite/cache/{hash2}</p>
var_dump(LocalCache::getCachedHtml($string));

To prevent URLs from being cached, prefix them with a @ symbol:

$string = '<p>@http://dont-cache-me/file.jpg</p>';
// <p>http://dont-cache-me/file.jpg</p>
var_dump(LocalCache::getCachedHtml($string));

Example Middleware

This example middleware caches all external files referenced in your template and replaces the URLs.

<?php

namespace App\Http\Middleware;

use Closure;
use Offline\LocalCache\Facades\LocalCache;

class LocalCacheMiddleware
{

    /**
     * Cache and replace links to external assets.
     *
     * @param  \Illuminate\Http\Request $request
     * @param  \Closure                 $next
     *
     * @return mixed
     */
    public function handle($request, Closure $next)
    {
        $response = $next($request);

        $response->setContent(
            LocalCache::getCachedHtml($response->getContent())
        );

        return $response;
    }

}

Add it to your app/Http/Kernel.php

/**
 * The application's route middleware.
 *
 * @var array
 */
protected $routeMiddleware = [
    'localcache'   => \App\Http\Middleware\LocalCacheMiddleware::class,
];

And use it in your routes.php or controller.

Route::get('/', [
    'uses'       => 'PageController@index',
    'middleware' => ['localcache']
]);