Laravel 5: Generating Paths Relative to the Resource Directory With resource_path

The resource_path helper function can be used to resolve the path to the resource directory, or to sub-directory or file contained within the resources directory.

#Signature

The signature of the resource_path function is:

1function resource_path(
2    $path = ''
3);

#Example Use

The following example assume that the Laravel application's root directory is located at /Users/admin/Valet/companion. The resource_path helper function will return the full path.

This example demonstrates how to resolve various resource paths, the results of the function call will appear of the function call as a comment:

1// /Users/admin/Valet/companion/resources
2$path = resource_path();
3 
4// /Users/admin/Valet/companion/resources/lang/
5$path = resource_path('lang/');
6 
7// /Users/admin/Valet/companion/resources
8// /lang/en/auth.php
9$path = resource_path('lang/en/auth.php');

The resource_path helper function does not append the trailing forward slash; the trailing forward slash can be added by calling the str_finish function after calling the resource_path function; both function calls would return the same result:

1// Get a resource_path with the trailing forward slash.
2$path = str_finish(resource_path('lang'), '/'):
3 
4$path = str_finish(resource_path('lang/'), '/'):

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