OI Laravel Drive

A file space with folders for any entity of your Laravel application — a Team, an Organization, a Project. Drives reuse the folders and files of oi-laravel-attachments, add the entity they belong to, an owner and a date of creation to every item, a trash, a JSON API, MCP tools for AI assistants and events to build search indexing on.

Features

• Drives per entity — one drive per entity, or several named drives (config)
• Folders — a tree, optional unique names per parent folder
• Files in several folders — a file filed in no folder is at the root
• Owner and date — every folder and file has an owner (a user) and a settable date of creation
• Trash — deletions go to the trash, restorable; optional purge after X days
• Folder deletion — optionally with the files filed only in the deleted tree; shared files are only taken out
• JSON API — ready-made routes, or switch them off and call the services from your own controllers
• Sharing — share a folder read-only with other entities, or open a public link with an optional password and expiry date; download a folder as a ZIP
• MCP tools — 16 tools for laravel/mcp servers, including one-time upload links for binaries
• Events — one per action, to index, notify or audit from other modules
• Pluggable access — a resolver for the current entity and its members, a replaceable policy

How It Works

The drive adds driveEntry, driveFolders and driveFiles relations to the attachments models at runtime, so your own Folder/File subclasses keep working. Public identifiers are UUIDs.

Requirements

• PHP 8.2+
• Laravel 11, 12, or 13
• oi-lab/oi-laravel-attachments ^1.0, spatie/laravel-data ^4.23
• laravel/mcp ^0.9 or ^1.0 for the MCP tools (optional)

Installation

composer require oi-lab/oi-laravel-drive

Publish & Migrate

php artisan vendor:publish --tag=oi-laravel-drive-config
php artisan migrate

Configuration

return [
    'user_model' => 'App\Models\User',

    // Which entity the user works in, and who belongs to an entity
    'driveable' => [
        'resolver' => ConfigurableDriveableResolver::class,
        'current' => 'currentTeam',     // relation or attribute of the user
        'members' => 'users',           // relation of the entity
        'current_only' => true,         // only the drives of the current entity
    ],

    'drives' => ['multiple' => false, 'default_name' => 'Documents'],
    'folders' => ['unique_names' => false],
    'files' => ['disk' => env('OI_DRIVE_DISK', ...), 'max_bytes' => 50 * 1024 * 1024, 'allowed_mimes' => null],
    'trash' => ['enabled' => true, 'purge_after_days' => env('OI_DRIVE_TRASH_PURGE_DAYS')],

    'api' => ['enabled' => true, 'prefix' => 'api/drive', 'middleware' => ['api', 'auth:sanctum']],
    'uploads' => ['enabled' => true, 'ttl_minutes' => 10, 'inline_max_bytes' => 1024 * 1024],
    'mcp' => ['naming' => 'kebab'], // or 'snake'
];

For other access rules, bind your own DriveableResolver class in driveable.resolver, or extend DrivePolicy and set it in policy.

Usage

Drives

use OiLab\OiLaravelDrive\Services\DriveManager;

$drives = app(DriveManager::class);

$drive = $drives->driveFor($team);                 // default drive, created on first use
$drive = $drives->resolveDrive($user);             // default drive of the user's current entity
$archives = $drives->createDrive($team, 'Archives'); // when drives.multiple is on

Folders

use OiLab\OiLaravelDrive\Services\DriveFolders;

$folders = app(DriveFolders::class);

$clients = $folders->create($drive, 'Clients');
$acme = $folders->create($drive, 'Acme', parent: $clients, owner: $user, createdAt: now()->subYear());

$folders->update($acme, name: 'Acme SAS');
$folders->move($acme, null);                       // to the root
$folders->delete($clients, withFiles: true);       // to the trash, with its exclusive files
$folders->restore($clients);                       // with everything trashed with it

Files

use OiLab\OiLaravelDrive\Services\DriveFiles;

$files = app(DriveFiles::class);

$file = $files->store($drive, $request->file('file'), folders: [$acme, $contracts], title: 'Contract');
$note = $files->storeContent($drive, "# Minutes\n…", 'minutes.md');

$files->attach($file, [$archive]);                 // file it in one more folder
$files->detach($file, [$acme]);                    // take it out of one
$files->sync($file, []);                           // back to the root
$files->delete($file);                             // from every folder, to the trash

['url' => $url] = $files->downloadUrl($file);      // temporary link
$text = $files->text($note);                       // ['text' => …, 'truncated' => false]

Listings, search, trash, owners

$listing = $drives->contents($drive, $acme);       // DriveListingData: folders, files, breadcrumbs
$found = $drives->search($drive, 'invoice');       // DriveItemsData
$trash = $drives->trash($drive);
$drives->emptyTrash($drive);

$drives->setOwner($file, $colleague);
$drives->setCreatedAt($file, Carbon::parse('2020-01-01'));

Sharing

app(DriveShares::class)->share($folder, $partnerTeam);   // read-only, subfolders and files included
app(DriveShares::class)->sharedWith($user);              // folders shared with the user's current entity
$link = app(DriveLinks::class)->open($folder);           // public link; setPassword(), setExpiry(), regenerate(), revoke()
app(DriveArchives::class)->download($folder);            // the folder as a ZIP

The host serves the public page (links.route). See docs/usage/sharing.md.

JSON API

With api.enabled, under api.prefix (identifiers are UUIDs, drive is optional and defaults to the current entity's drive):

Rule violations answer 422 (or 409) with {error, message}. Set api.enabled to false to expose the services through your own controllers.

MCP Tools

use OiLab\OiLaravelDrive\Mcp\DriveTools;

class AppServer extends Server
{
    protected function boot(): void
    {
        $this->tools = [...DriveTools::all(), /* … */];
    }
}

Add DriveTools::INSTRUCTIONS to the server instructions. The tools: list-drive-folder, search-drive, get-drive-file (metadata, temporary link, text), list-drive-trash, get-drive-upload-status, create-drive-folder, update-drive-folder, delete-drive-folder, request-drive-upload (one-time signed PUT link or drag-and-drop page), upload-drive-file (inline text or base64), update-drive-file, delete-drive-file, restore-drive-item, get-drive-folder-sharing, share-drive-folder, update-drive-folder-link, plus list-drives in multiple mode.

Events

All in OiLab\OiLaravelDrive\Events, with SerializesModels so listeners may be queued:

DriveCreated, DriveUpdated, DriveDeleted, DriveFolderCreated, DriveFolderUpdated, DriveFolderMoved, DriveFolderTrashed, DriveFolderRestored, DriveFolderDeleted, DriveFileCreated, DriveFileUpdated, DriveFileTrashed, DriveFileRestored, DriveFileDeleted, DriveFileAttached, DriveFileDetached, DriveEntryOwnerChanged, DriveFolderShared, DriveFolderUnshared, DriveFolderLinkSaved, DriveFolderLinkRevoked.

Permanent deletions carry a Data snapshot (DriveFolderData, DriveFileData), the model being gone. Listen to them to feed Laravel Scout or oi-laravel-raggable.

Commands

php artisan drive:purge-trash [--days=30]   # scheduled daily when trash.purge_after_days is set
php artisan drive:prune-uploads             # scheduled hourly when uploads are on

AI Assistant Skills

php artisan oi:skills oilab-laravel-drive --project

Testing

composer test

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please feel free to submit a Pull Request.

When contributing:

1. Write tests for new features
2. Ensure all tests pass: vendor/bin/pest
3. Follow existing code style
4. Update documentation as needed

License

The MIT License (MIT). Please see the License File for more information.

Credits

Olivier Lacombe - Creator and maintainer

Olivier is a Product & Technology Director based in Montpellier, France, with over 20 years of experience innovating in UX/UI and emerging technologies. He specializes in guiding enterprises toward cutting-edge digital solutions, combining user-centered design with continuous optimization and artificial intelligence integration.

Projects & Resources:

• OI Dev Docs - Documentation for all Open Source OI Lab packages
• OnAI - Training courses and masterclasses on generative AI for businesses
• Promptr - Prompt engineering Management Platform

Support

For support, please open an issue on the GitHub repository.