Laravel 5: upload multiple files and other input - php

Question

Im having trouble with my form with Laravel 5. When I specify the enctype attribute to 'multipart/form-data' I receive a token mismatch error. If it is removed, the form always fails the validation specified in my controller.
HTML
<form class="lajax" action="{{ action('AlbumController#store') }}" method="POST">
<div class="form-group">
<label>Album Name</label>
<input type="text" name="name" class="form-control">
</div>
<div class="form-group">
<label for="coverFile">Album Cover Image</label>
<input name="cover" type="file" id="coverFile">
<p class="help-block">Example block-level help text here.</p>
</div>
<div class="form-group">
<label for="albumFiles">Album Images</label>
<input type="file" name="photos[]" multiple>
</div>
<button type="submit" class="btn btn-primary">Create Album</button>
{{ csrf_field() }}
</form>
Controller
public function store(Request $request)
{
//request input verification rules
$rules=[
'name'=>'required',
'cover'=>'required|image',
'photos'=>'required|array',
'photos.*'=>'image'
];
//perform validation
$this->validate($request,$rules);
// blah blah
}
Specifically, the images seem to be failing.
Errors Reported: cover is not an image, photo.0 is not an image, photo.1 is not and image..... and so forth.
Please help

Answer 1

Change:
<form class="lajax" action="{{ action('AlbumController#store') }}" method="POST">
To:
<form method="POST" action="{{ action('AlbumController#store') }}" accept-charset="UTF-8" enctype="multipart/form-data">
In your controller you can check your input like this:
$request->hasFile('file_input_name');
Also check Laravel Collective to create forms: https://laravelcollective.com/

Answer 2

I have found the error! It was in my php.ini file. I change post_max_size fom 3M to 1000M. it worked.