Uploading picture in Laravel Registration

Question

I'm making a website where users can upload their own profile picture, with their credentials such as name, email, password, and dob using Laravel Authentication.

After doing php artisan make:auth , there's this function in AuthController.php :

protected function create(array $data)
{
    return User::create([
        'name' => $data['name'],
        'email' => $data['email'],
        'password' => bcrypt($data['password']),
        'dob' => $data['dob'],
        'profile_picture' => $data['profile_picture],
    ]);
}

and here's my form:

<form class="form-horizontal" role="form" method="POST" action="{{ url('/register') }}" enctype="multipart/form-data">
    {{ csrf_field() }}

    <div class="form-group{{ $errors->has('email') ? ' has-error' : '' }}">
        <label for="email" class="col-md-4 control-label">E-mail Address</label>
        <input id="email" type="email" class="form-control" name="email" value="{{ old('email') }}">

        @if ($errors->has('email'))
            <span class="help-block">
                <strong>{{ $errors->first('email') }}</strong>
             </span>
        @endif
    </div>

    <div class="form-group{{ $errors->has('password') ? ' has-error' : '' }}">
        <label for="password" class="col-md-4 control-label">Password</label>
        <input id="password" type="password" class="form-control" name="password">

        @if ($errors->has('password'))
            <span class="help-block">
                <strong>{{ $errors->first('password') }}</strong>
            </span>
        @endif
    </div>

    <div class="form-group{{ $errors->has('password_confirmation') ? ' has-error' : '' }}">
        <label for="password-confirm" class="col-md-4 control-label">Confirm Password</label>
        <input id="password-confirm" type="password" class="form-control" name="password_confirmation">

        @if ($errors->has('password_confirmation'))
            <span class="help-block">
                <strong>{{ $errors->first('password_confirmation') }}</strong>
            </span>
        @endif
    </div>

    <div class="form-group{{ $errors->has('name') ? ' has-error' : '' }}">
        <label for="name" class="col-md-4 control-label">Fullname</label>
        <input id="name" type="text" class="form-control" name="name" value="{{ old('name') }}">

        @if ($errors->has('name'))
            <span class="help-block">
                <strong>{{ $errors->first('name') }}</strong>
            </span>
        @endif
    </div>

    <div class="form-group{{ $errors->has('dob') ? ' has-error' : '' }}">
        <label for="name" class="col-md-4 control-label">Date of Birth</label>
        <input id="dateOfBirth" type="date" class="form-control" name="dob">

        @if ($errors->has('dob'))
            <span class="help-block">
                <strong>{{ $errors->first('dob') }}</strong>
            </span>
        @endif
    </div>

     <div class="form-group{{ $errors->has('profile_picture') ? ' has-error' : '' }}">
        <label for="name" class="col-md-4 control-label">Profile Picture</label>
        <input id="profilePicture" type="file" class="form-control" name="profile_picture">

        @if ($errors->has('profile_picture'))
            <span class="help-block">
                <strong>{{ $errors->first('profile_picture') }}</strong>
            </span>
        @endif
    </div>

    <div class="form-group">
        <button type="submit" class="btn btn-primary">
            <i class="fa fa-btn fa-user"></i> Register
        </button>
    </div>
</form>

I would like to save the image filename with its extension. But how do I do it? How to get only his filename in string, move the image file to public folder, and save it into XAMPP database?

Answer 1

If you just want to save the name and upload to public directory in profile_images folder, then you can do something like this:

protected function create(array $data)

{
     $request = request();

     $profileImage = $request->file('profile_picture');
     $profileImageSaveAsName = time() . Auth::id() . "-profile." . $profileImage->getClientOriginalExtension();

     $upload_path = 'profile_images/';
     $profile_image_url = $upload_path . $profileImageSaveAsName;
     $success = $profileImage->move($upload_path, $profileImageSaveAsName);


      return User::create([
            'name' => $data['name'],
            'email' => $data['email'],
            'password' => bcrypt($data['password']),
            'dob' => $data['dob'],
            'profile_picture' => $profile_image_url,
        ]);
}