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wiwa1978
wiwa1978

Reputation: 2697

Laravel Spatie Medialibrary: upload multiple images through REST API

I'm using the Spatie MediaLibrary library in a Laravel application. I want to upload 0 or more photos to my app via a REST API.

I can get it to work when the photo attribute contains 1 file

public function store(Request $request)
{
    $request->validate([
        'name'          =>      'required',
        'slug'          =>      'required',
        'description'   =>      'required',
        'price'         =>      'required|integer',
        'photo'         =>      'nullable|file'
    ]);
    $listing =  Listing::Create([
        'user_id'       =>      auth('api')->user()->id,
        'name'          =>      $request->name,
        'slug'          =>      $request->slug,
        'description'   =>      $request->description,
        'price'         =>      $request->price,
    ]);
    // stores the photo
    if ($request->hasFile('photo')) {
        $listing->addMediaFromRequest('photo')->toMediaCollection('photos');
    }
    return new ListingResource($listing);
}

The postman request looks as follows: enter image description here

I know want to change the code so it can handle multiple photos in the request. I'm using the following code in the controller above to do so:

if ($request->hasFile('photo')) {
   foreach ($request->input('photo', []) as $photo) {
       $listing->addMediaFromRequest('photo')->toMediaCollection('photos');
   }
}

and I have changed the attribute to photos[] instead of photo.

enter image description here

The code never goes into the foreach loop even.

Anyone has a hint on how to solve this?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 11120

Answers (3)

Ahsan Najam
Ahsan Najam

Reputation: 363

This code is working for me.

View

<input type="file" name="photo[]" multiple />

ListingController

public function store(Request $request)
{    
if ($request->hasFile('photo')) {
                    $fileAdders = $listing->addMultipleMediaFromRequest(['photo'])
                        ->each(function ($fileAdder) {
                            $fileAdder->toMediaCollection('photos');
                        });
                }
}

Upvotes: 1

wiwa1978
wiwa1978

Reputation: 2697

Apparently the Spatie Medialibrary has a function called addMultipleMediaFromRequest. The full code is now

public function store(Request $request)
{
   $request->validate([
        'name'          =>      'required',
        'slug'          =>      'required',
        'description'   =>      'required',
        'price'         =>      'required|integer',
        'photo'         =>      'nullable'
    ]);

    $listing =  Listing::Create([
        'user_id'       =>      auth('api')->user()->id,
        'name'          =>      $request->name,
        'slug'          =>      $request->slug,
        'description'   =>      $request->description,
        'price'         =>      $request->price,
    ]);

    if ($request->hasFile('photo')) {
        $fileAdders = $listing->addMultipleMediaFromRequest(['photo'])
            ->each(function ($fileAdder) {
                $fileAdder->toMediaCollection('photos');
            });
    }

    return new ListingResource($listing);
}

In Postman, I'm calling it as follows: enter image description here

documentation reference

Upvotes: 9

Davide Casiraghi
Davide Casiraghi

Reputation: 18097

I managed to upload multiple files like this:

if($request->file('photos')) {
    foreach ($request->file('photos') as $photo) {
        $post->addMedia($photo)->toMediaCollection('post');
    }
}

Check this out:
https://github.com/spatie/laravel-medialibrary/issues/227#issuecomment-220794240

Upvotes: 0

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