Here is what my course folder looks like: folder name mobile (directory) slides (directory) data.js mask.js player.css story_content (directory user.js data.swf story.html story.swf

I can not figure out how to get this entire package to load correctly in a view.

If they are out of the public folder you will need to call them through php/laravel

So you could setup a route like

Route::get('asset/{file}', [
'uses' => 'AssetController@index', 
'as' => 'asset'
]);

Then in your asset controller you would have

public function index($file)
{
    // permission checks???

    // make sure the user isn't trying to traverse directories
    $basePath = '/foo/bar/baz/'; // this is the root of your assets folder
    $realBasePath = realpath($basePath); // this converts your $basepath into a FQ path
    $userPath = $basePath . $file; // this is the file the user has requested including path
    $realUserPath = realpath($userPath); // this converts the $userPath into a FQ path

    // check if $realUserPath contains $realBasePath
    if ($realUserPath === false || strpos($realUserPath, $realBasePath) !== 0) {
        //Directory Traversal! - BAD
        abort(403);
    } else {
        //Good path!
        // send the file (mod_xsendfile/read_file
    }


    
    
}

You will notice that I have included code to prevent directory traversal - this is to prevent a malicious user traversing up the directory tree and managing to send some of your app code or worse

I have never loaded anything like this before. If I place a folder inside say the storage folder. How can I reference a file named story.swf inside my view?