Moving file uploads to specific folder with Laravel - php

Question

I am having issues getting my image uploads to move to the proper folders. When I upload them they just dump into the main img folder instead of going to the specific subfolder.
Here is the code I have:
$rental = new Rental;
$rental->title = $request->title;
$rental->name = $request->name;
$rental->description = $request->description;
if ($request->hasFile('image')) {
$image = $request->file('image');
$filename = time() . '.' . $image->getClientOriginalExtension();
$path = public_path('img/rentals' . $filename);
Image::make($image)->save($path);
$rental->image = $filename;
}
$rental->save();

Answer 1

You're missing a / in your $path. The following line...
$filename = time() . '.' . $image->getClientOriginalExtension();
will generate a string, something like 123456789.jpg. Then in the next line you're doing...
$path = public_path('img/rentals' . $filename);
which joins together img/rentals and 123456789.jpg, resulting in img/rentals123456789.jpg. Notice that . which concatenates two strings. You're then passing the resulting string to public_path which will refer to a folder in your public directory named img and a filename rentals123456789.jpg.
To solve your problem you just need to stick a forward slash in between:
$filename = time() . '.' . $image->getClientOriginalExtension();
$path = public_path('img/rentals/' . $filename);
which will result in a folder img/rentals inside your public path and a filename of 123456789.jpg.