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Majed Ahmed
Majed Ahmed

Reputation: 155

Issue uploading image to laravel

I try to get $request->image->getClientOriginalName() but it returns

"Call to a member function getClientOriginalName() on string"

When I call $request->image it returns a string of the image name on my disk like picture.png

How to get a file object?!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 369

Answers (3)

Julian Camilleri
Julian Camilleri

Reputation: 3125

I would suggest going through this link; which gives an in depth overview of how handling files from requests work in laravel.

Although you can always do the below:

$file = $request->file('photo');

or 

$file = $request->photo;

I would suggest you going through the documentation and changing the version of laravel as per your needs.

Upvotes: 0

Jinal Somaiya
Jinal Somaiya

Reputation: 1971

You could use:

$request->file('image')->getClientOriginalName();

Upvotes: 0

rap-2-h
rap-2-h

Reputation: 32048

First, your form need to have enctype="multipart/form-data" in it. Make sure it looks like this:

<form action="your/path" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data">

Then check that your input has type="file":

<input type="file" name="image">

Then access your file in your controller via:

$request->file('image')->getClientOriginalName();

Upvotes: 4

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