Why is my image not storing in a specified folder in Laravel 5.6?

In my form, I asked for an image to upload. Then I already validated it and it works. But the file is not stored in the uploads folder.

Here's a snippet of my ProductController:

public function store(Request $request)
{
// Validate fields
$this->validate($request, [
'product_name' => 'required',
'product_price' => 'required',
'product_desc' => 'required',
'product_img' => 'image|required'
]);

// Upload image
if($request->hasFile('image')) {
app()->make('path.public/uploads');
$image = $request->image;

$image->move('uploads', $image->getClientOriginalName());


}

/*// Save the data into database
Product::create([
'name' => $request->product_name,
'price' => $request->product_price,
'description' => $request->product_desc,
'image' => $request->image->getClientOriginalName()
]);


// Echo a session message
$request->session()->flash('msg', 'Your product has been added');


// Redirect to view page
return redirect('/products');*/

}


I already tried looking at other possible solutions but the other questions were already at storing the image in the database. I also tried checking if uploads was a directory and existed, and it is.

uploads

Can anyone please help? Thanks.

3 Answers
3

Try this: official documentation: This is how it should look in your controller:

if($request->hasFile('image')) {
$request->file('image')->store('uplodads/', 'public');
}

if($request->hasFile('image')) {
$request->file('image')->store('uplodads/', 'public');
}

This would store the image in /storage/app/public/uploads by default. You can also change the public path in /config/filesystems.php. You can then access the file (if you linked the storage) with asset('storage/uploads'.$img_name).

/storage/app/public/uploads

public

/config/filesystems.php

asset('storage/uploads'.$img_name)

public

uploads

storage/app/public

IlluminateHttpRequest;

Request

app()->make('path.public/uploads');


I've already solved it. The variable was wrong all along. Instead of it being product_img, I placed image.

product_img

image

Here's the updated code:

// Validate fields
$this->validate($request, [
'product_name' => 'required',
'product_price' => 'required',
'product_desc' => 'required',
'product_img' => 'image|required'
]);

// Upload image
if($request->hasFile('product_img')) {
$image = $request->product_img;
$image->move('uploads', $image->getClientOriginalName());
}


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