Laravel generating fake images from a specific path

Question

I'm working on a business website with Laravel. I'm trying to generate fake images with a factory to make tests easier, but it's not working because I don't know how to add the path of my images in the code.

The code which generates fake data in database:

use App\Product;
use Faker\Generator as Faker;

$factory->define(Product::class, function (Faker $faker) {
    // $images = [];
    // $images[0] = '/img/fashion/1.jpg';
    // $images[1] = '/img/fashion/2.jpg';
    // $images[2] = '/img/fashion/3.jpg';
    // $images[3] = '/img/fashion/4.jpg';
    return [
        'category_id' => $faker->numberBetween($min = 1, $max = 3),
        'brand_id' => $faker->numberBetween($min = 1, $max = 3),
        'name' => $faker->word,
        'url' => $faker->word,
        'description' => $faker->sentence($nbWords = 6, $variableNbWords = true),
        'price' => $faker->numberBetween($min = 1, $max = 20),
        'content' => $faker->realText($faker->numberBetween(10, 20)),
        'image' => $faker->image('public/storage/images', 640, 480, null, false)
    ];
});

I saw a training video on YouTube in which we attach media information to a Laravel application via the package spatie/laravel-medialibrary, but it's not clear.

Can anyone please explain this?

Answer 1

You are creating the image using faker in the correct way.

You will need to run the following command:

php artisan storage:link

Following that, you can access the image using:

<img src="/storage/images/{{$product->image}}">