API upload image from ionic to laravel back end - php

Question

so i'm trying to upload image from ionic app to laravel web application problem it is i don't know how to do this my controller looks like this
public function postDamage(Request $request){
try{
$damage = new damage();
$damage->type = $request->input('type');
$damage->address = $request->input('address');
$damage->description = $request->input('description');
$damage->solvedBy = $request->input('solvedBy');
$damage->userToken = $request->input('userToken');
$damage->opstina = $request->input('opstina');
$damage->image = $request->input('image');
/* $imgName="";
if ($request->hasFile('image')) {
$imgName = time().'.'.$image->getClientOriginalExtension();
$destinationPath = public_path('/images');
$image->move($destinationPath, $imgName);
$this->save();
return back()->with('success','Image Upload successfully');
}
$target_path = time().'.jpg';
$imagedata = $request->input('image');
$imagedata = str_replace('data:image/jpeg;base64,',$imagedata);
$imagedata = str_replace('data:image/jpg;base64,',$imagedata);
$imagedata = str_replace(' ', '+',$imagedata);
$imagedata = base64_decode($imagedata);
file_put_contents($target_path,$imagedata);
$damage->image = $imagedata; */
$damage->save();
return response()->json(['response'=>'Штетата е пратено.']);
}catch (\Exception $e){
return response()->json(['response'=>$e->getMessage()]);
}
}
now how i can post some data together with image but image to be uploaded in server. The image that is generated in ionic it is in base64.
Any method i tried from google but none of them works.
Thank you.

Answer 1

I am using Spatie Laravel Medialibrary to save images for my laravel models here is a git link:
https://github.com/spatie/laravel-medialibrary
then in controller
if ($f = $request->file) {
$img = explode(",", $f)[1];
$base64data = str_replace(',', '', $img);
$item->addMediaFromBase64($base64data)
->usingFileName('original.jpg')
->toMediaCollection('item');
}
now in your case that might be (not tested)
$img = explode(",", $f)[1];
$base64data = str_replace(',', '', $img);
$imagedata = base64_decode($base64data);
file_put_contents($target_path,$imagedata);