Laravel: How to save images to public folder?

Question

I am having trouble uploading a user image to my public folder. The file name generates correctly, and saves the name to my database, except the iamge itself refuses to get saved into my public folder. What am I doing wrong?

  public function update_avatar(Request $request) {
  if($request->hasFile('avatar')) {

    $avatar = $request->file('avatar');
    $filename = time() . "." . $avatar->getClientOriginalExtension();

    Image::make($avatar)->resize(300,300)->save(public_path('/uploads/'.$filename)); ==> This is causing me errors

    user = Auth::user();
    $user->avatar = $filename;
    $user->save();

  }

Answer 1

The public disk is intended for files that are going to be publicly accessible. By default, the public disk uses the local driver and stores these files in storage/app/public. To make them accessible from the web, you should create a symbolic link from public/storage to storage/app/public. This convention will keep your publicly accessible files in one directory that can be easily shared across deployments.

To create the symbolic link, you may use the storage:link Artisan command:

php artisan storage:link

https://laravel.com/docs/5.5/filesystem

Answer 2

I think you should try this:

$destinationPath = public_path('uploads');

Image::make($avatar)->resize(300,300)->save($destinationPath.'/'.$filename);