Sending an image with HTTP POST - laravel

Question

Recently I wanted to separate my project in different services to I wanted to make blogs independent from the project.
In the first project i have written this code. I want to send the data that i get from the form to another API http://127.0.0.1:100/api/saveBlog
public function update(Request $request, $blog)
{
if (!$blog instanceof Blog) {
$blog = $this->getById($blog);
}
$response = Http::post("http://127.0.0.1:100/api/saveBlog",[
'name' => $request->input('name'),
'description' => $request->input('description'),
'name' => $request->input('name'),
'photto' => $request->file('photto')
]);
dd($response->status());
}
In the API service i am trying to read the data
Route::post("/saveBlog",function (Request $request){
$blog = new Blog();
$blog->name = $request->input('name');
$blog->description = $request->input('description');
$blog->name = $request->input('name');
$main = $request->file('photto');
$fileName = microtime() . '.' . $main->getClientOriginalExtension();
$img = Image::make($main->getRealPath());
$img->resize(400, 400);
$img->stream();
Storage::disk('local')->put('public/blogs/' . $fileName, $img, 'public');
$blog->image_path = "/storage/blogs/" . $fileName;
return $blog->save();
});
But i am getting 500 status error and blog is not being saved in database.
I think the problem is with $request->file('photto')
ANY IDEA?

Answer 1

check whether image exist in request like below
if($request->has('photto')){
$main = $request->file('photto');
$fileName = microtime() . '.' . $main->getClientOriginalExtension();
$img = Image::make($main->getRealPath());
$img->resize(400, 400);
$img->stream();
Storage::disk('local')->put('public/blogs/' . $fileName, $img, 'public');
$blog->image_path = "/storage/blogs/" . $fileName;
}
Updates
$photo = fopen(public_path('/storage/filename'), 'r');
$response = Http::
attach('photo', $photo)
->post($url, [
'param_1' => 'param_1 contents',
...
]);