Repositories with Laravel, saving image to DB - php

Question

I have setup a repository to create a new resident.
<?php namespace Crescent\Repos;
interface ResidentRepository {
public function create($input);
}
Then in my controller I have, which uses the intervention image class to resize an image and it uploads correctly to the directory, but how can I save the name of the file to the DB using this repo?
public function store()
{
if (Input::hasFile('photo')){
$res = new Residents;
$file = Input::file('photo');
$name = $file->getClientOriginalName();
$input = Input::all();
$image = Image::make(Input::file('photo')->getRealPath())->resize(200, 200);
$image->save(public_path() . '/uploads/residents/' . $input['photo']->getClientOriginalName());
$res->photo = $name; // This doesn't work
}
$this->resident->create(Input::all());
}
Everything else works all the data, but the image isn't storing the name just showing some temp dir/name like /tmp/phpIX7KcY

Answer 1

I see that you have done $res = new Residents; and $res->photo = $name; but you haven't done $res->save(); which would have saved the name to the table corresponding to Residents. Also since you haven't added anything else to $res, only the photo would be saved.
Replace the code in your controller with the following:
public function store()
{
$input = Input::all();
if (Input::hasFile('photo')){
$file = Input::file('photo');
$name = $file->getClientOriginalName();
$image = Image::make(Input::file('photo')->getRealPath())->resize(200, 200);
$image->save(public_path() . '/uploads/residents/' . $input['photo']->getClientOriginalName());
$input['photo'] = $name;
}
$this->resident->create($input);
}
If in your code $this->resident->create(Input::all()); saves all data properly except the photo, it is because by passing Input::all() you're saving everything exactly as it was received from the client and the filename received from the resizing operation isn't present in Input::all(). By assigning Input::all() to the variable $input and doing $input['photo'] = $name;, the location of the file on the server is stored instead of the location on the client. So, by doing $this->resident->create($input);, the location on the server is stored along with other data received from the client.