Laravel: File upload not working - php

Question

I'm trying to upload an image via an HTML form in Laravel 5.5. I have included the enctype="multipart/form-data" attribute, still nothing happens.
Form code:
<form method="POST" enctype="multipart/form-data">
{{ csrf_field() }}
<div class="form-group">
<label for="m_photo" class="col-md-4 control-label">Main photo</label>
<div class="col-md-6">
<input id="m_photo" type="file" class="form-control-file space" name="m_photo" required>
</div>
</div>
<div class="form-group">
<div class="col-md-6 col-md-offset-4">
<button type="submit" class="btn btn-primary">Submit</button>
</div>
</div>
</form>
Route (web.php) code:
Route::post('smartphones/entry', 'HomeController#s_submit')->name('s_submit');
Controller code:
public function s_submit() {
if (Input::hasFile('m_photo')) {
// doing something
}
else {
echo 'Nothing happened';
}
}
'Nothing happened' is echoed out when I submit the form.
It's interesting that when I do this:
public function s_submit(Request $request) {
$input = Input::all();
dd($input);
}
I see:
array:1 [
"m_photo" => UploadedFile {#210 ▶}
]
It's like the image is getting passed, but I'm unable to retrieve it. Please help.

Answer 1

This can happen when PHP max_file_size is not set to a size that allows the file you are trying to upload to be sent. This causes hasFile returns false, when, for example, file->getClientOriginalName() works.
Try to check upload_max_filesize or post_max_size in your php.ini, or try with a smaller file to check if it works.

Answer 2

if (Input::hasFile('m_photo')) {
$destinationPath = '/uploads/app/';
$file = $request->file('m_photo');
$filename = $file->getClientOriginalName();
$file->move(public_path() . $destinationPath, $filename);
$filename_to_save_in_db = $destinationPath . $filename;
}

Answer 3

Get the file with:
$file = $request->m_photo;
Or with:
$file = $request->file('m_photo');
https://laravel.com/docs/5.5/requests#retrieving-uploaded-files

Answer 4

You have forgot to put action in Your html Form :
put action="/smartphones/entry" or action="{{route('s_submit')}}"
<form method="POST" enctype="multipart/form-data" action="{{route('s_submit')}}">
{{ csrf_field() }}
<div class="form-group">
<label for="m_photo" class="col-md-4 control-label">Main photo</label>
<div class="col-md-6">
<input id="m_photo" type="file" class="form-control-file space" name="m_photo" required>
</div>
</div>
<div class="form-group">
<div class="col-md-6 col-md-offset-4">
<button type="submit" class="btn btn-primary">Submit</button>
</div>
</div>
</form>
Create images folder in public folder
in your controller
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Storage;
public function s_submit(Request $request) {
if($request->hasFile('m_photo')){
$filenameWithExt=$request->file('m_photo')->getClientOriginalName();
$filename=pathinfo($filenameWithExt,PATHINFO_FILENAME);
$extension=$request->file('m_photo')->getClientOriginalExtension();
$fileNameToStore=$filename.'_'.time().'.'.$extension;
request()->m_photo->move(public_path('images'), $fileNameToStore);
}
else{
$fileNameToStore='noimage.jpg';
}
}

Answer 5

Try this:
public function s_submit()
{
request()->validate([
'm_photo' => 'required|image|mimes:jpeg,png,jpg,gif,svg|max:2048',
]);
$imageName = time().'.'.request()->m_photo->getClientOriginalExtension();
request()->m_photo->move(public_path('images'), $imageName);
return back()
->with('success','You have successfully upload image.')
->with('m_photo',$imageName);
}
Blade:
{!! Form::open(array('route' => 's_submit','files'=>true)) !!}
<div class="form-group">
<label for="m_photo" class="col-md-4 control-label">Main photo</label>
<div class="col-md-6">
{!! Form::file('m_photo', array('class' => 'form-control-file space')) !!}
</div>
</div>
<div class="form-group">
<div class="col-md-6 col-md-offset-4">
<button type="submit" class="btn btn-primary">Submit</button>
</div>
</div>
{!! Form::close() !!}

Answer 6

For future visitors, the accepted answer is the right answer.
I wanted to share one more thing.
I also faced similar issue and I had set the upload_max_filesize and post_max_size variables to 20M, which was quite enough.
But I still faced the issue. So, I increased to 500M, then it worked.
It was really strange because I was uploading a file of less than 1 MB size.