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user3095193

Reputation: 337

Saving multiple images in laravel

I'm trying to save multiple images in an array to the database, but I'm struggling with that. I've managed to be able to upload the multiple images to the folder just not the database.

My controller

public function store(Request $request)
{

    $content = new Content();

    $request->validate($this->getRules());

    $content->fill($this->getSafeInput($request));

    if($request->hasFile('image'))
    {
        foreach($request->file('image') as $image)
        {
            $destinationPath = 'content_images/';
            $filename = $image->getClientOriginalName();
            $image->move($destinationPath, $filename);
            $content->image = $filename;

        }

    }

    $content->save();

    return redirect()->route('content.index');
}

My form

<div class="content-form">
    {{ Form::open(array('route' => 'content.store', 'method' => 'post','files'=>'true' )) }}
        {{ csrf_field() }}

        <div class="form-group">
            <label for="title">Title</label>
            <input type="text" id="title" class="form-control" name="title">
        </div>

        <div class="form-group">
            <input type="file" name="image[]" multiple="multiple">
        </div>

        <input type="submit" class="btn btn-primary" value="Submit"></input>
    {{ Form::close() }}
</div>

Upvotes: 3

Views: 15194

Answers (2)

Sapnesh Naik
Sapnesh Naik

Reputation: 11636

You are overriding the value of $content->image on each image save so finally your $content->image will have only the name of the last image.

This should work:

if($request->hasFile('image'))
{
    $names = [];
    foreach($request->file('image') as $image)
    {
        $destinationPath = 'content_images/';
        $filename = $image->getClientOriginalName();
        $image->move($destinationPath, $filename);
        array_push($names, $filename);          

    }
    $content->image = json_encode($names)
}

Here the image names are initially stored in an array and the array later is saved into db in json format. so that you can later access them by doing json_decode and you will have your array of names back!

Upvotes: 8

Lirianer
Lirianer

Reputation: 203

If you want to save the routes of the images separated by ';' you could do something like 

public function store(Request $request)
{

$content = new Content();

$request->validate($this->getRules());

$content->fill($this->getSafeInput($request));

$allImages = null;

if($request->hasFile('image'))
{
    foreach($request->file('image') as $image)
    {
        $destinationPath = 'content_images/';
        $filename = $image->getClientOriginalName();
        $image->move($destinationPath, $filename);
        $fullPath = $destinationPath . $filename;
        $allImages .= $allImages == null ? $fullPath : ';' . $fullPath;
    }

    $content->image = $allImages;

}

$content->save();

return redirect()->route('content.index');
}

This should make $allImagesa string with each of the paths to the images saved and then save it all in the Contentmodel.

Upvotes: 0

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