Upload Images to Laravel-Lumen API

Question

With my API i need to upload images from mobile app to my server and save the image path to database so i have the following issues :

• Where to save the images? I tried to save them in the storage/app under images folder (which is work fine)

     public function fileUpload(Request $request) {
  
  
     if ($request->hasFile('image')) {
         $image = $request->file('image');
         $name = time().'.'.$image->getClientOriginalExtension();
         $destinationPath = storage_path('/app/images');
         $image->move($destinationPath, $name);
  
  
         return response()->json(['data'=>"image is uploaded"]);
     }
  

  }

  and make a symbolic link to this folder in the public folder but its not working due to access permission error which will lead to the other issue.

• What permission should i gave to the storage folder to make the whole operation works save the images and the saved link is readable (even 777 didn't work) Access forbidden!

  sudo chmod -R 777 storage

Any ideas will be much appreciated

Solution 1

Storage directory is not open to user's requests, public directory is, you need to create a symbolic link from storage directory to public directory:

php artisan storage:link

This command will create a symbolic link from public/storage to storage/app/public, in this case you can store your file under storage/app/public and make it accessible from the web too:

$image = $request->file('image');
$image->storeAs('public', $name); // => storage/app/public/file.img
URL::asset('storage/'.$name); // => http://example.com/stoage/file.img

Solution 2

I would advice you try to create a folder in the public folder and store your files there. You can use base_path()."/public/uploads"