Upload photo in project and db - Laravel - php

Question

I need some help with upload. I want to insert a product into the db. The product has 3 pictures. I want the picture to be uploaded into a specific folder in the project, and the path to be entered into the db.
The folder where I want to upload the photos is: /public/css/img
My Db looks like this: I will put an example added manually in db.
id | title |price|category_id| images1 | images2| | images3| etc.
1 |Sofa |324.0 5 |/css/img/1.jpg |/css/img/2.jpg |/css/img/3.jpg
This is my view addProductModal.blade.php -> Is a modal with form.
<div class="modal fade" id="modalFormaddproduct" role="dialog">
<div class="modal-dialog" id="route">
<div class="modal-content">
<!-- Modal Header -->
<div class="modal-header">
<button type="button" class="close" data-dismiss="modal">
<span aria-hidden="true">×</span>
<span class="sr-only">Inchide</span>
</button>
<h4 class="modal-title" id="myModalLabel">Adauga Subcategorie</h4>
</div>
<!-- Modal Body -->
<div class="modal-body" style="text-align: center;">
<p class="statusMsg"></p>
<form role="form" action="{{route('addproduct')}}" method="post">
{{csrf_field()}}
<div class="row">
<div class="col-sm-6">
<div class="form-group">
<label>Nume</label>
<input type="text" class="form-control text-center" name="name" placeholder="">
</div>
</div>
<div class="col-sm-6">
<div class="form-group">
<label>Pret</label>
<input type="text" class="form-control text-center" name="price" placeholder="">
</div>
</div>
</div>
<!-- /.row -->
<div class="col-sm-6">
<div class="form-group">
<label>Subcategoria:</label>
<select style="text-align-last:center" class="form-control text-center" name="category_id">
#foreach($categories as $category)
#foreach($category->subcategories as $subcategory)
<option value="{{$subcategory->id}}">{{$subcategory->category}}</option>
#endforeach
#endforeach
</select>
</div>
</div>
<div class="row">
<div class="col-sm-6">
<div class="form-group">
<label>Descriere</label>
<input type="text" class="form-control text-center" name="description" placeholder="">
</div>
</div>
<div class="col-sm-6">
<div class="form-group">
<label>Marime</label>
<input type="text" class="form-control text-center" name="size" placeholder="">
</div>
</div>
<div class="col-sm-6">
<div class="form-group">
<label>Material</label>
<input type="text" class="form-control text-center" name="material" placeholder="">
</div>
</div>
<div class="col-sm-6">
<div class="form-group">
<label>Cantitate</label>
<input type="text" class="form-control text-center" name="quantity" placeholder="">
</div>
</div>
<div class="col-sm-6">
<div class="form-group">
<label>Recomandat:</label>
<select style="text-align-last:center" class="form-control text-center" name="hot">
<option value="0">Nerecomandat</option>
<option value="1">Recomandat</option>
</select>
</div>
</div>
<div class="row">
<div class="col-sm-4">
<div class="form-group">
<label>Imagine 1:</label>
<input type="file" name="file1" id="file1">
<input type="submit" value="Upload1" name="submit1">
<input type="hidden" value="{{ csrf_token() }}" name="_token">
</div>
</div>
<div class="col-sm-4">
<div class="form-group">
<label>Imagine 2:</label>
<input type="file" name="file2" id="file2">
<input type="submit" value="Upload2" name="submit2">
<input type="hidden" value="{{ csrf_token() }}" name="_token">
</div>
</div>
<div class="col-sm-4">
<div class="form-group">
<label>Imagine 3:</label>
<input type="file" name="file3" id="file3">
<input type="submit" value="Upload3" name="submit3">
<input type="hidden" value="{{ csrf_token() }}" name="_token">
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="modal-footer">
<button type="button" style="background: gainsboro; border-radius: 8px" class="btn btn-default" data-dismiss="modal">Inchide</button>
<button type="submit" style="background: #10D47D; border-radius: 8px" class="btn btn-primary">Adauga</button>
</div>
</div>
</form>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
Route is Route::post('/products/add', 'AdminController#addproduct')->name('addproduct');
Controller: AdminController.php
public function addproduct(Request $request)
{
$product = new Product();
$product->title = $request->name;
$product->price = $request->price;
$product->category_id = $request->category_id;
$product->description = $request->description;
$product->size = $request->size;
$product->material = $request->material;
$product->quantity = $request->quantity;
$product->hot = $request->hot;
$product->images1 = $request->file1;
$product->images2 = $request->file2;
$product->images3 = $request->file3;
if (Input::hasFile('file1','file2','file3')) {
echo 'Uploaded';
$file = Input::file('file1','file2','file3');
$file->move('uploads', $file->getClientOriginalName());
echo '';
}
$product->save();
return redirect(route('adminproducts'))->with('success', 'The Product was added');
}

Answer 1

You should add into your form:
enctype="multipart/form-data"
to make sure you can upload a file like so:
<form role="form" action="{{route('addproduct')}}" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data">

Answer 2

I do not think there is any reason not to use some maintained library but write all the functionality yourself. I would recommend you to take a look on: https://github.com/spatie/laravel-medialibrary

Answer 3

I found the solution.
public function addproduct(Request $request)
{
$product = new Product();
$product->title = $request->name;
$product->price = $request->price;
$product->category_id = $request->category_id;
$product->description = $request->description;
$product->size = $request->size;
$product->material = $request->material;
$product->quantity = $request->quantity;
$product->hot = $request->hot;
$file1 = Input::file('file1');
$file2 = Input::file('file2');
$file3 = Input::file('file3');
$filename1 = $file1->getClientOriginalName();
$filename2 = $file2->getClientOriginalName();
$filename3 = $file3->getClientOriginalName();
$file1 = $file1->move(public_path().'/img', $filename1);
$file2 = $file2->move(public_path().'/img', $filename2);
$file3 = $file3->move(public_path().'/img', $filename3);
$product->images1 = '/img/'.$filename1;
$product->images2 = '/img/'.$filename2;
$product->images3 = '/img/'.$filename3;
$product->save();
return redirect(route('adminproducts'))->with('success', 'Produsul a fost creat');
}