Using Laravel 5.4, I'm tring to setup a form where a user can enter a food name and its image. While trying to upload a PNG or JPG image, I get the following Validation Error
:
The image must be an image.
If I remove the validation for image, I get a FatalErrorException
:
Call to a member function getClientOriginalExtension() on null
which is a helper function provided by Intervention/Image library. This could mean that the image didn't upload at all.
FORM
<form action="/hq/foods" method="POST">
{{ csrf_field() }}
<input type="text" name="name">
<input type="file" name="image">
<button type="submit" class="btn btn-success ">
ADD FOOD ITEM
</button>
</form>
CONTROLLER
public function store(Request $request) {
$this->validate($request, [
'name' => 'required|min:2|max:255',
'image' => 'required|image'
]);
$food_category = FoodCategory::find($request->food_category_id);
$food = new Food;
$food->name = $request->name;
$image = $request->file('image');
$filename = time() . '.' . $image->getClientOriginalExtension();
$location = public_path('img/foods/' . $filename);
Image::make($image)->resize(800, 400)->save($location);
$food->image = $filename;
$food->save();
Session::flash('success',
'
<h4>Success!</h4>
<p>The food item has been added to the Menu.</p>
');
return back();
}
What am I missing?
To upload images you need to add:
enctype="multipart/form-data"
to your form so instead of:
<form action="/hq/foods" method="POST">
you should use
<form action="/hq/foods" method="POST" enctype="multipart/form-data">
If you use Laravelcollective
{!! Form::open(['method'=>'post','files' => true,'url'=>'/hq/foods']) !!}
OR Using HTML
<form action="/hq/foods" method="POST" enctype="multipart/form-data">
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