Cannot save image intervention image. NotWritableException in Image.php line 138 - php

Question

Im trying to save a manipulated image which i will them push to s3.
My code that works This code saves the image directly within the public folder*
public function store(Filesystem $filesystem)
{
$request = Input::all();
$validator = Validator::make($request, [
'images' => 'image'
]);
if ($validator->fails()) {
return response()->json(['upload' => 'false']);
}
$postId = $request['id'];
$files = $request['file'];
$media = [];
$watermark = Image::make(public_path('img/watermark.png'));
foreach($files as $file) {
$image = Image::make($file->getRealPath());
$image->crop(730, 547);
$image->insert($watermark, 'center');
$image->save($file->getClientOriginalName());
}
}
What i would like to achieve is to be able to save it within a folder of it's own. Firstly what is the best place to store an image for a blog post, within the storage of public folder? But anyway when i do this:
$image->save('blogpost/' . $postId . '/' . $file->getClientOriginalName());
// Or this
$image->save(storage_path('app/blogpost/' . $postId . '/' . $file->getClientOriginalName()));
I get the error:
folder within public
NotWritableException in Image.php line 138: Can't write image data to
path (blogpost/146/cars/image.jpg)
or
storage path
NotWritableException in Image.php line 138: Can't write image data to
path /code/websites/blog/storage/app/blogpost/146/image.jpg
I've tried
cd storage/app/
chmod -R 755 blogpost
And it still wont work
Thank you for reading this

Answer 1

Ok so here is how i solved it, I made the directory first before storing,
Storage::disk('local')->makeDirectory('blogpost/' . $postId);
Once the folder is created i then go on to store the manipulated images like so:
$image->save(storage_path('app/blogpost/' . $postId . '/' . $imageName));
And then pushing the image to S3
$filesystem->put('blogpost/' . $postId . '/' . $imageName, file_get_contents(storage_path('app/blogpost/' . $postId . '/' . $imageName)));
This worked

Answer 2

You can solve it by casting the Intervation/Image variable to a data stream using function stream. Then use the Storage Laravel facade to save the image.
$img = Image::make('path-to-the-image.png')->crop(...)->insert->stream('jpg', 90)
Storage::put('where_I_want_the_image_to_be_stored.jpg', $img);

Answer 3

Laravel 5 needs permission to write to entire Storage folder so try following,
sudo chmod 755 -R storage
if 755 dont work try 777.

Answer 4

Am improving #Amol Bansode answer.
You are getting this error because $postId folder does not exist in the path you specified.
You could do it like this:
//I suggest you store blog images in public folder
//I assume you have created this folder `public\blogpost`
$path = public_path("blogpost/{$postId}");
//Lets create path for post_id if it doesn't exist yet e.g `public\blogpost\23`
if(!File::exists($path)) File::makeDirectory($path, 775);
//Lets save the image
$image->save($path . '/' . $file->getClientOriginalName());

Answer 5

In my case I migrated a project from Windows 10 to Parrot (Debian-Linux) and I had the same problem and turned out the slashes were backward slashes and Linux interpret them differently. Unlike Windows, it doesn't really matter.
//Windows Code:
$image_resize->save(public_path('\storage\Features/' .'Name'.".".'png'));
//Linux Code (Working):
$image_resize->save(public_path('storage/Features/' .'Name'.".".'jpg'));

Answer 6

I know the question is related to Laravel but I came across from making it to work with WordPress. If somebody is coming from WordPress world, this code works (I was getting the same 'cannot write' error) and changing directory permission would not work as the library probably needs the relative path (the code below is valid for direct installation of Intervention through composer into any PHP application, not Laravel per se)-
require 'vendor/autoload.php';
use Intervention\Image\ImageManager;
$manager = new ImageManager(array('driver' => 'imagick'));
$image = $manager->make('PUBLIC IMAGE URL/LOCAL IMAGE PATH');
$image->crop(20, 20, 40, 40);
$image->save(__DIR__ . '/img/bar.png');

Answer 7

in my case:
i double check my symlinks in filesystem.php in config folder in laravel
and remove all symlink then regenerate them
php artisan storage:link

Answer 8

in my case my fileName is not valid format for naming in windows but it worked on linux or docker
$make_name = date('Y-m-d-H:i:s') . hexdec(uniqid()) . '.' . $img->getClientOriginalExtension();
when I remove this date('Y-m-d-H:i:s') it worked as well

Answer 9

I have faced the same issue but 775 permission not sort it so I changed the write permission to the folder(also sub-folders) to 777 to get over this issue.