Laravel upload multiple files - laravel

Question

I'm building a gallery with multiple files functionality.
So far I'm having two issues, but let's paste my code first.
Controller:
public function store(Request $request)
{
$gallery = new GalleryImage();
if($request->hasFile('image')) {
$images = $request->file('image');
foreach($images as $image) {
$path = $image->getClientOriginalName();
$name = time() . '-' . $path;
$gallery->image = $image->move(public_path().'/uploads/temp/', $name);
//$gallery->image = $request->file('image')->storeAs('public/gallery-images', $name);
}
}
$gallery->gallery_id = $request->gallery_id;
$gallery->save();
return back()->with('success_message','Images has been uploaded!');
}
View blade:
<form action="{{ route('gallery-images.store') }}" method="POST" enctype="multipart/form-data">
{{ csrf_field() }}
<div class="form-group">
<input type="hidden" name="gallery_id" value="{{ $gallery->id }}">
<input type="file" name="image[]" id="id_imageGallery" class="form-control" multiple="multiple" required>
</div>
<div class="form-group">
<button type="submit" class="btn btn-primary">Upload</button>
</div>
</form>
My first issue when I have my code like this and upload three files, it's successfully storing the files into /uploads/temp directory, but in my database I can see there's only one image uploaded, instead of three.
My second issue is when I change my code and use the commented part (because I want to store those three images into Storage):
$gallery->image = $request->file('image')->storeAs('public/gallery-images', $name);
I'm getting this error:
Call to a member function storeAs() on array
How can I upload those multiple images into the Storage folder and record them all into the database?
-- EDIT --
I've solved my first issue!
I've simply put the save method and other details inside the loop. I've should have thought about this before :)
Here's my updated code:
public function store(Request $request)
{
if($request->hasFile('image')) {
$images = $request->file('image');
foreach($images as $image) {
$gallery = new GalleryImage();
$path = $image->getClientOriginalName();
$name = time() . '-' . $path;
$gallery->image = $image->move(public_path().'/uploads/temp/', $name);
//$gallery->image = $request->file('image')->storeAs('public/gallery-images', $name);
$gallery->gallery_id = $request->gallery_id;
$gallery->save();
}
}
return back()->with('success_message','Images has been uploaded!');
}
Now only thing to do is how to store them into File Storage, instead of the public_path and avoid that error:
Call to a member function storeAs() on array

Answer 1

I've finally solved the issues and I'm posting it, so it may be useful for some.
Here's my code:
public function store(Request $request)
{
if($request->hasFile('image')) {
foreach($request->image as $image) {
$path = $image->getClientOriginalName();
$name = time() . '-' . $path;
$gallery = new GalleryImage();
$gallery->image = $image->storeAs('public/gallery-images', $name);
$gallery->gallery_id = $request->gallery_id;
$gallery->save();
}
}
return back()->with('success_message','The images have been uploaded!');
}

Answer 2

Try to implement using the following code, it will give uploaded files url in serialized format
public static function upload_file($file){
$file_name = time();
$file_name .= rand();
$file_name = sha1($file_name);
if ($file) {
$ext = $file->getClientOriginalExtension();
$file->move(public_path() . "/uploads", $file_name . "." . $ext);
$local_url = $file_name . "." . $ext;
$s3_url = url('/').'/uploads/'.$local_url;
return $s3_url;
}
return "";
}
public static function upload_multiple_files($files){
if(is_array($files)){
$return_array = array();
foreach ($files as $file){
if(!empty($file)){
$return_array[] = self::upload_file($file);
}else{
$return_array[] = '';
}
}
return serialize($return_array);
}else{
return NULL;
}
}

Answer 3

//I have updated and commented your code. Try it, It should work.
public function store(Request $request)
{
if($request->hasFile('image')) {
$images = $request->file('image');
foreach($images as $image) {
$gallery = new GalleryImage();
// laravel auto manages unique name and extension of file.
$gallery->image = $image->store('gallery-images', 'public');
$gallery->gallery_id = $request->gallery_id;
$gallery->save();
}
}
return back()->with('success_message','Images has been uploaded!');
}