How to Upload File in Laravel 9 with Example

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This article you will learn how to upload photo file to server using Laravel 9 framework. You will know simplest way to implement and with our explanation and example you will understand with this image upload tutorial.

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How to Upload Image in Laravel

We will implement upload image without using helping from database. We just display image from session after we succeed uploaded file to the server. Following steps below help you to completed upload image or files to server.

Step 1 - Install Laravel App
Step 2 - Create Controller
Step 3 - Create Blade File (View)
Step 4 - Adding Route
Step 5 - Config Symlink to Link Storage File
Step 6 - Run Laravel App

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Step 1 - Install Laravel

You have to installed Laravel framework. Read this to know how to install Laravel project.

Step 2 - Create Controller

We are going to a controller which have two methods. showUploadUI() method to display the web UI for upload file and uploadImage() method for upload to store image on server. Following command will create an ImageController

php artisan make:controller ImageController

Open file app -> Http -> Controllers -> ImageController.blade.php

<?php

namespace App\Http\Controllers;

use Illuminate\Http\Request;

class ImageController extends Controller
{
    public function showUploadUI()
    {
    	return view('uploadUI');	
    }

    public function uploadImage(Request $request)
    {
        $request->validate([
            'image' => 'required|image|mimes:jpeg,png,jpg,gif,svg|max:2048',
        ]);
        $file = $request->file('image');
        $filename = basename($file->getClientOriginalName(), '.'.$file->getClientOriginalExtension());
        $finalName= $filename."_".date("Y_m_d_h_i_sa", date(time())).".".$file->getClientOriginalExtension();
        $file->storeAs('/public/images/', $finalName);

        return back()
            ->with('success','File has been uploaded.')
            ->with('image',$finalName);
    }
}

Step 3 - Create Blade File (View)

In this step we are going to create uploadUI.blade.php file. We will insert a button and input browse file for upload in HTML. We will use session to show image because we did not use database to manipulate. See the below code.

Open file resources -> views -> uploadUI.blade.php

<html>
<head>
    <title>Laravel 9 Image Upload - cambotutorial.com</title>
    <link href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/bootstrap/5.1.3/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet">
</head>
<body>
    <div class="container">
        <h2 >Laravel 9 Image Upload - cambotutorial.com</h2>

        <div class="card">
            <h5 class="card-header">Upload Image</h5>
            <div class="card-body">
                @if ($message = Session::get('success'))
                <div class="alert alert-success" role="alert">
                    <strong>{{ $message }}</strong>
                </div>
                <img src="{{asset('uploads/images')}}/{{ Session::get('image') }}" width="400">
                @endif
                @if (count($errors) > 0)
                    <div class="alert alert-danger">
                        <ul>
                            @foreach ($errors->all() as $error)
                                <li>{{ $error }}</li>
                            @endforeach
                        </ul>
                    </div>
                @endif
                <form action="{{ route('uploadImg') }}" method="POST" enctype="multipart/form-data">
                    @csrf
                    <div class="row"> <br>   
                        <div class="col-md-6">
                            <input type="file" name="image" class="form-control">
                        </div>     
                        <div class="col-md-6">
                            <button type="submit" class="btn btn-primary">Upload</button>
                        </div>     
                    </div>
                </form>
            </div>
        </div>
    </div>
</body>  
</html>

Step 4 - Adding Route

We already implemented view and controller, so we can tell route where to point to URL. We have two links to add, one is use GET method and one is POST method with the same URL.

Open file routes -> web.php

<?php

use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Route;
use App\Http\Controllers\ImageController;


/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Web Routes
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| Here is where you can register web routes for your application. These
| routes are loaded by the RouteServiceProvider within a group which
| contains the "web" middleware group. Now create something great!
|
*/
Route::get('/uploadimage', [ImageController::class, 'showUploadUI'])->name("uploadUI");
Route::post('/uploadimage', [ImageController::class, 'uploadImage'])->name("uploadImg");

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Step 5 - Config Symlink to Link Storage File

We upload and store files in storage directory. We have to link public -> uploads -> images directory in root with storage directory which located in storage -> app -> public -> images. I have written an article about how symlink in hosting and local machine.

Open file config -> filesystems.php

Change

'links' => [
        public_path('public') => storage_path('app/public'),
    ],

'links' => [
        public_path('uploads') => storage_path('app/public'),
    ],

After modified filesystems.php run command artisan below

php artisan storage:link

Step 6 - Run Laravel App

Finally, we ready to run artisan command. We are going start the Laravel server with following command.

php artisan serve

Go to URL http://localhost:8000/uploadimage

laravel-9-upload-image-demo

Output after uploaded

laravel-9-upload-image

Thanks for read my article, hope it would help your project. Have a nice day!

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