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Marcus Christiansen
Marcus Christiansen

Reputation: 3197

Call to a member function getPathName() on array

I'm uploading a multi file array to my server in Laravel.

When I log the files using $request->file('files') I get:

[2018-11-12 16:10:03] local.DEBUG: array (
  0 => 
  Illuminate\Http\UploadedFile::__set_state(array(
     'test' => false,
     'originalName' => 'test-pdf.pdf',
     'mimeType' => 'application/pdf',
     'error' => 0,
     'hashName' => NULL,
  )),
  1 => 
  Illuminate\Http\UploadedFile::__set_state(array(
     'test' => false,
     'originalName' => 'test-pdf.pdf',
     'mimeType' => 'application/pdf',
     'error' => 0,
     'hashName' => NULL,
  )),
  2 => 
  Illuminate\Http\UploadedFile::__set_state(array(
     'test' => false,
     'originalName' => 'test-pdf.pdf',
     'mimeType' => 'application/pdf',
     'error' => 0,
     'hashName' => NULL,
  )),
)

I want to access each file in the array and get the pathname like so:

$files = $request->files;
foreach ($files as $key => $file) {
  Log::debug($file->getPathName());
}

However this throws the following error:

local.ERROR: Call to a member function getPathName() on array {"exception":"[object] (Symfony\\Component\\Debug\\Exception\\FatalThrowableError(code: 0): Call to a member function getPathName() on array at /home/vagrant/Projects/business-risk-portal/app/Http/Controllers/FileController.php:68)

How can access the file path for each of those uploaded files?

UPDATE If I try this:

$files = $request->files;
foreach ($files as $key => $file) {
   $temp_path = $request->file('tmp.' . $key);
   Log::debug($temp_path->getPathName());
}

I get:

Call to a member function getPathName() on null {"exception":"[object] (Symfony\\Component\\Debug\\Exception\\FatalThrowableError(code: 0): Call to a member function getPathName() on null at /home/vagrant/Projects/business-risk-portal/app/Http/Controllers/FileController.php:69)

Upvotes: 0

Views: 4348

Answers (2)

Devon Bessemer
Devon Bessemer

Reputation: 35347

$request->files will return a multi-dimensional array of all files, while $request->file('files') will return an array of only the files relating to the files input.

Upvotes: 2

Adam Rodriguez
Adam Rodriguez

Reputation: 1856

Here is what worked for me:

Server side:

$files = $request->file('myfiles');

foreach($files as $file) {
    $target = $file->move(storage_path('files'), $file->getClientOriginalName());
    $path = $target->getPath() . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . $target->getFileName();
}

View:

<form method="post" action="/myfiles" enctype="multipart/form-data">
    {{csrf_field()}}
    <input type="file" name="myfiles[]" class="form-control" multiple />
    <button type="submit" class="btn btn-success">Save</button>
</form>

Upvotes: 0

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