VueJs Laravel Image Upload - php

Question

Like the title says, I'm trying to do an image upload from VueJs to a Laravel endpoint. I discovered that the only way(if there is another please tell me) is to send the base64 of the image through the request. On the Vue side I think everything is covered.
However, on the Laravel side is where it gets complicated. I can't decode the base64 string that gets passed, and when I try to store the image in my AWS S3 bucket, it doesn't store properly. Here is the code:
VueJS
<template>
<input type="file" name="image" class="form-control" #change="imagePreview($event)">
</template>
methods: {
submitForm(){
axios.defaults.headers.post['Content-Type'] = 'multipart/form-data';
axios.post(this.$apiUrl + '/article', {
image: this.image
}).then(response => {
flash(response.data.message, 'success');
}).catch(e => {
console.log(e);
})
},
imagePreview(event) {
let input = event.target;
if (input.files && input.files[0]) {
var reader = new FileReader();
let vm = this;
reader.onload = e => {
this.previewImageUrl = e.target.result;
vm.image = e.target.result;
}
reader.readAsDataURL(input.files[0]);
}
}
}
Laravel:
$this->validate($request, [
'image' => 'required',
]);
// return response()->json(base64_decode($request->image));
$timestampName = microtime(true) . '.jpg';
$url = env('AWS_URL') . '/article_images/' .$timestampName;
Storage::disk('s3')->put($timestampName, base64_decode($request->image));
If I add the image validation rule, it says it's not an image..
I would also like to retrieve the extension if possible.

Answer 1

you can do it using FormData in JS part and use getClientOriginalExtension() on the file to get the extension in Laravel.
VueJS
imagePreview(event) {
let selectedFile = event.target.files[0];
vm.image = selectedFile;
}
submitForm(){
let fomrData = new FormData();
formData.append('image', vm.image);
axios.post(this.$apiUrl + '/article', formData, {
headers: {
'Content-Type': 'multipart/form-data'
}
})
.then(response => {
flash(response.data.message, 'success');
})
.catch(e => {
console.log(e);
});
}
Laravel
$this->validate($request, [
'image' => 'required',
]);
$image = $request->file('image');
$extension = $image->getClientOriginalExtension(); // Get the extension
$timestampName = microtime(true) . '.' . $extension;
$url = env('AWS_URL') . '/article_images/' .$timestampName;
Storage::disk('s3')->put($url, file_get_contents($image));
Here is a link that might be useful
Hope that it helps.