Upload Images to Laravel-Lumen API - php

Question

With my API i need to upload images from mobile app to my server and save the image path to database so i have the following issues :
Where to save the images? I tried to save them in the storage/app
under images folder (which is work fine)
public function fileUpload(Request $request) {
if ($request->hasFile('image')) {
$image = $request->file('image');
$name = time().'.'.$image->getClientOriginalExtension();
$destinationPath = storage_path('/app/images');
$image->move($destinationPath, $name);
return response()->json(['data'=>"image is uploaded"]);
}
}
and make a symbolic link to this folder in the public folder but its
not working due to access permission error which will lead to the
other issue.
What permission should i gave to the storage folder to make the whole
operation works save the images and the saved link is readable (even 777 didn't work) Access forbidden!
sudo chmod -R 777 storage
Any ideas will be much appreciated

Answer 1

Storage directory is not open to user's requests, public directory is, you need to create a symbolic link from storage directory to public directory:
php artisan storage:link
This command will create a symbolic link from public/storage to storage/app/public, in this case you can store your file under storage/app/public and make it accessible from the web too:
$image = $request->file('image');
$image->storeAs('public', $name); // => storage/app/public/file.img
URL::asset('storage/'.$name); // => http://example.com/stoage/file.img

Answer 2

I would advice you try to create a folder in the public folder and store your files there. You can use base_path()."/public/uploads"

Answer 3

The best place to store the images would inside the storage folder and create a symbolic link in the public folder.
sudo chmod -R 777 storage should work. Make sure you are accessing the right url.
To access the image you should use something like the below urls. My folder structure looks like /storage/app/public/images/user/avatar/
Local: http://localhost/project-name/public/storage/images/user/avatar/HdXzVnKxzUSdAssvXaoM2n0ixzEEG7jlK8acLiHV.png
Production: http://example.com/storage/images/user/avatar/3133L07guCv8shINNZM30c2Ux1HdfpFt04YdLRpf.png
You can check this gist to figure out if you are missing something: https://gist.github.com/danish-shaikh/9c328288a817309f93238c6b5d48ed7e