I\'ve been experimenting using the new Flysystem integration with Laravel 5. I am storing \'localised\' paths to the DB, and getting the Storage facade to complete the path
If you just want to display storage (disk) path use this:
Storage::disk('local')->url('screenshots/1.jpg'); // storage/screenshots/1.jpg
Storage::disk('local')->url(''): // storage
Also, if you are interested, I created a package (https://github.com/fsasvari/laravel-uploadify) just for Laravel so you can use all those fields on Eloquent model fields:
$car = Car::first();
$car->upload_cover_image->url();
$car->upload_cover_image->name();
$car->upload_cover_image->basename();
$car->upload_cover_image->extension();
$car->upload_cover_image->filesize();