Flarum Storage - S3 Compatible ?

kamildev

I'm thinking of using Amazon S3 storage (or other) for all attachments uploaded to my forum (images and files)

Amazon makes it fairly easy (I think) to upload files to your bucket from PHP (there is an AWS PHP SDK provided - 100% S3-compatible)
Please consider implementing uploading attachments directly to an AWS S3 bucket as an admin option in Flarum.
I think this feature would be of use for more people than just me since Amazon storage is "pay as you go" and very cheap given that it is highly available and is backed up much better than most hosting packages that people use to host their forums.

Franz

Well, we don't have attachments right now...

For avatars, though, we currently use the Flysystem library to abstract filesystem access. And it just so happens that this library also offers drivers for accessing AWS S3 storage. So we actually had this in mind 😉

Our architecture will make it super easy to create an extension that replaces the default storage with one on S3. The only thing we still need to implement to make that possible is an abstraction that would allow us to generate URLs to these files based on their driver. I'll work on that. 🙂

kamildev

Franz Thank you, Flysystem looks very simple 🙂

BobDietz

Any suggestions on how to implement code to store avatars in AWS S3? The Flarum code is much different than current Laravel distributions so I'm a bit at a loss where to begin.

Thank you.