Laravel 5 relationsheep between article and images - php

Question

Hi i'm new in Laravel and i've this simple problem. I have app where user can create some article and also can to upload main image for that article and it works perfect. I also want to give possibility to user to upload more images for his article. I already create model (ArticleImage) and add relationship between Article and ArticleImage. And i created form field for uploading multiple file inside the article form. But i don't know now how to tell laravel to save all names of these paths into database and store image inside the public/images folder, than later in views i can use these images. Do i need now to create ArticleImage controller and inside controller to write that function or i should do that inside Article controller inside store function. Tnx in advance for every help.
Here is link to github-repo(https://github.com/Dabizlja/Laravel-blog)

Answer 1

If form sends input as array.
<input name="picures[]" />
In your ArticleController on save you can use a json type
$files=[];
$pictures = $request['pictures'];
if (count($pictures) > 0 && $pictures[0] != null) {
foreach ($pictures as $picture) {
$validator = Validator::make([$picture], ['mimes:jpeg,jpg,bmp,png']);
if ($validator->fails()) {
return $validator->messages()->all();
}
$picture->move(public_path() . '/images/', $picture->getClientOriginalName());
array_push($files, $picture->getClientOriginalName());
}
}
$article->images = json_encode($files);
To get it back in the view
<?php
foreach ( $images as $file) {
echo '<img src="'asset('/images/' . $file)'"/>';
}
?>
In your controller on edit remember to decode the json
$files = json_decode($article->images);
To delete a picture you would have to go through the array and remove it the same way.
Hope this works for you.

Answer 2

May be
$article->articleImages()->saveMany($images);
Hopefully this will solve your problem