Laravel : $request->hasFile() is not working

Question

I have a form where i get the title,description and an image. When i dd($requests->all());, It returns the following which is correct.

array:4 [
  "projectTitle" => "asd"
  "project_description" => "asd"
  "project_image" => "15940723_1336567063030425_9215184436331587115_n.jpg"
  "_token" => "eUj27iioySvIgut5Afu0ZHMgeVrO99a9e1o7Tw0w"
]

And i am storing the values as :

$project = new Portfolio;
$project->freelancer_id = Auth::user()->id;
$project->title = $request->get('projectTitle');
$project->description = $request->get('project_description');

if($request->hasFile('project_image')){
   $project_image = $request->file('project_image');
   $filename = time() . '.' . $project_image->getClientOriginalExtension();
   Image::make($project_image)->resize(197, 137)->save( public_path('/uploads/portfolios/' . $filename ) );
   $project->img = $filename;
}

$project->save();

But the img DB table field gets null.

The if($request->hasFile('project_image')) is not getting the field,

Also i have form where the method is POST and have enctype="multipart/form-data" and a for file i have <input type="file" name="project_image" id="project_image">.

What have i done wrong?

you might need to add -> enctype="multipart/form-data" .... to your form for it to see it as file instead of string. — Uche Dim, May 10 '17 at 01:49

score 42 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 09 '17 at 08:53

If everything's gonna correct in your code, then you might be missing the enctype, I had also missed that at startup,

<form action="{{ route('store') }}" method="POST" enctype="multipart/form-data">

Or if you use Form Helper, that enctype easily included with file=true field.

{!! Form::open(['route' => ['store'], 'file' => true]) !!}

score 28 · Answer 2 · edited Nov 18 '21 at 13:19

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You need to check php directive upload_max_filesize in php.ini.

Generally its size is 2M defined as default. If you upload a file greater than this size, the Laravel function

$request->hasFile()

will return false.

edited Nov 18 '21 at 13:19

Tomerikoo

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answered Dec 26 '18 at 11:09

Mahesh Yadav

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One thing important to note is I also had to change post_max_size to be greater than upload_max_filesize. – rick6 May 07 '20 at 16:43
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@rick6 thanks man! It was post_max_size in my case – Luka Feb 06 '22 at 10:09

Mayank Pandeyz · Answer 3 · 2020-04-10T06:42:50.367

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Be sure you have an 'files' => true option in your form definition like below:

{!! Form::open(['route' => ['uploadimage'], 'files' => true]) !!}

This option causes that your form will be render with enctype="multipart/form-data" option in HTML form tag, which is mandatory to upload a file using form

Or, if you are using html form, then make sure you have enctype="multipart/form-data" like:

<form action="{{ route('store') }}" method="POST" enctype="multipart/form-data">

edited Apr 10 '20 at 06:42

answered Jan 17 '17 at 13:07

Mayank Pandeyz

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It supposes to be 'files' => true – Ahmed Bermawy Dec 24 '19 at 10:34
@AhmedAlBermawy thanks for pointing out the mistake – Mayank Pandeyz Sep 24 '20 at 14:57

Muhammad Ali Rashed · Answer 4 · 2019-11-29T18:23:29.983

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I am using Laravel 5.5 and this worked for me (Found it on Laravel Docs https://laravel.com/docs/5.5/requests#files)

I replaced

if($request->hasFile('project_image')){...}

with

if ($request->file('project_image')!=null){...}

edited Nov 29 '19 at 18:23

answered Nov 29 '19 at 18:10

Muhammad Ali Rashed

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score 6 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 17 '17 at 20:33

The error is not in your backend code. Looks like it's an error in your frontend code.

As you can see the output of dd($request->all()) returned

array:4 [
  "projectTitle" => "asd"
  "project_description" => "asd"
  "project_image" => "15940723_1336567063030425_9215184436331587115_n.jpg"
  "_token" => "eUj27iioySvIgut5Afu0ZHMgeVrO99a9e1o7Tw0w"
]

Your project_image is just a string whereas it should have been an UploadedFile object/instance like so:

array:4 [
  "projectTitle" => "asd"
  "project_description" => "asd"
  "project_file" => UploadedFile {#30 
    -test: false
    -originalName: "15940723_1336567063030425_9215184436331587115_n.jpg"
    -mimeType: "image/jpeg"
    -size: 5126
    -error: 0
  }
  "_token" => "eUj27iioySvIgut5Afu0ZHMgeVrO99a9e1o7Tw0w"
]

score 0 · Answer 6 · answered Jan 17 '17 at 13:24

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Is the file getting stored on the server? Because you mention that the project_image field is null, but you are never saving anything to project_image, but you do try to save to the img field with $project->img = $filename;

answered Jan 17 '17 at 13:24

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Question Updated, The DB table column name is `img`. – Jan 17 '17 at 13:33

score 0 · Answer 7 · answered Jun 20 '21 at 09:40

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I had this problem but for me, problem is that I had used Form::model instead of Form::open. It should be:

{!! Form::open(['url'=>'user/profile/' . $user->id, 'files'=>true) !!}

answered Jun 20 '21 at 09:40

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