Laravel 8 Image Upload and Display

Laravel is world famous php framework.we are going to talk about laravel 8 image uploading and display the image. it has various features.Laravel is a MVC architecture. In this tutorial will see how to make a Image Uploading and Display the image in Laravel 8. Here is the Best Place to Learn Laravel 8.

Install Laravel 8

Create a new Project type the command on the command prompt . I create the project name payroll
Laravel 8 Tutorial Setup the Project

composer create-project --prefer-dist laravel/laravel payroll

After Type the Command you have to wait till the project has been created.

Database setup

Create the Database on xampp which name is dbpayroll

After created the database.

Change .env File

Change .env File for username, password and DB Name

After that run check the application the welcome screen of Laravel framework look like this.

php artisan serve

Create Migration

Create the tables

php artisan make:migration create_employees_table

Click and open it.

inside the function up() function i shown in below clearly.

    public function up()
    {
        Schema::create('employees', function (Blueprint $table) {
            $table->id();
            $table->string('name');
            $table->string('address');
            $table->string('mobile');
            $table->string('photo', 300);
            $table->timestamps();
        });
    }
    public function down()
    {
        Schema::dropIfExists('employees');
    }

After add the lines type

php artisan migrate

Create Controller

Create the controller name which is EmployeeController

php artisan make:controller EmployeeController --resource

Create Model

Model is used to get the data from the database.

Create the Model name which is Employee

php artisan make:model Employee

After Model is Created the look like this. Code inside Model Class (app\Models\)

class Employee extends Model
{
   
    protected $table = 'employees';
    protected $primaryKey = 'id';
    protected $fillable = ['name', 'address', 'mobile','photo'];
}

Create Views

Create a Folder inside the resources-views

inside the views folder create the Employee folder

In Laravel you have create the pages using layout.blade.php

Create page layout.blade.php

<html>
<head>
    <title>Contact Laravel 8 CRUD</title>
    <link href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/bootstrap@5.1.3/dist/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet" integrity="sha384-1BmE4kWBq78iYhFldvKuhfTAU6auU8tT94WrHftjDbrCEXSU1oBoqyl2QvZ6jIW3" crossorigin="anonymous">
</head>
<body>
  
<div class="container">
    @yield('content')
</div>
  
</body>
</html>

Create page create.blade.php

@extends('employees.layout')
@section('content')
<div class="card">
  <div class="card-header">Contactus Page</div>
  <div class="card-body">
      
      <form action="{{ url('employee') }}" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data">>
        {!! csrf_field() !!}
        <label>Name</label></br>
        <input type="text" name="name" id="name" class="form-control"></br>
        <label>Address</label></br>
        <input type="text" name="address" id="address" class="form-control"></br>
        <label>Mobile</label></br>
        <input type="text" name="mobile" id="mobile" class="form-control"></br>
        <input class="form-control" name="photo" type="file" id="photo">

        
        <input type="submit" value="Save" class="btn btn-success"></br>
    </form>
  
  </div>
</div>
@stop

Create page index.blade.php

@extends('employees.layout')
@section('content')
    <div class="container">
        <div class="row">
            <div class="col-md-9">
                <div class="card">
                    <div class="card-header">Contacts</div>
                    <div class="card-body">
                        <a href="{{ url('/employee/create') }}" class="btn btn-success btn-sm" title="Add New Contact">
                            <i class="fa fa-plus" aria-hidden="true"></i> Add New
                        </a>
                        <br/>
                        <br/>
                        <div class="table-responsive">
                            <table class="table">
                                <thead>
                                    <tr>
                                        <th>#</th>
                                        <th>Name</th>
                                        <th>Address</th>
                                        <th>Telephone</th> 
                                        <th>Photo</th> 
                                </thead>
                                </thead>
                                <tbody>
                                @foreach($employees as $item)
                                    <tr>
                                        <td>{{ $loop->iteration }}</td>
                                        <td>{{ $item->name }}</td>
                                        <td>{{ $item->address }}</td>
                                        <td>{{ $item->mobile }}</td>
                                        <td>
                                            <img src="{{ asset($item->photo) }}" width= '50' height='50' class="img img-responsive" />


                                        </td>
                                    </tr>
                                @endforeach
                                </tbody>
                            </table>
                        </div>
                    </div>
                </div>
            </div>
        </div>
    </div>
@endsection

Controller

After that Pass All view pages through Controller. you have to add the Model namespace here

use App\Models\Employee;

Data is coming from the database via Model.

<?php
namespace App\Http\Controllers;
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use App\Models\Employee;

class EmployeeController extends Controller
{
    public function index()
    {
        $employees = Employee::all();
        return view ('employees.index')->with('employees', $employees);
    }
    public function create()
    {
        return view('employees.create');
    }
    public function store(Request $request)
    {
        $requestData = $request->all();
        $fileName = time().$request->file('photo')->getClientOriginalName();
        $path = $request->file('photo')->storeAs('images', $fileName, 'public'); 
        $requestData["photo"] = '/storage/'.$path;
        Employee::create($requestData);
        return redirect('employee')->with('flash_message', 'Employee Addedd!');  
    }
}

Routes

Pages are Manage through routes. If you are crud system simple you can add it the routes one line look like this

Route::resource(‘/employee’, EmployeeController::class);

You have to add the ControllerNameSpace

use App\Http\Controllers\EmployeeController;

<?php

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

Route::get('/', function () {
    return view('welcome');
});
Route::resource("/employee", EmployeeController::class);