Laravel file upload path and view rendering - laravel

Question

I successfully upload a file and store its path with the following snippet:
/*Image Handling*/
$file = Input::file('profilePicture');
$destinationPath = public_path().'/images/';
$filename = $file->getClientOriginalName();
Input::file('profilePicture')->move($destinationPath, $filename);
//Profile image
$profileImg = $destinationPath.$filename;
then I store profileImg in database. This is what it looks like:
/Applications/MAMP/htdocs/devproject/public/images/picture.jpeg
Now I want to show this picture in one of the views. So I did this:
<a class="th" href="{{URL::to('/')}}">{{ HTML::image($details->profileImg, "work", array('style' => 'width:100px;height:100px;')) }}</a>
and this is how it is rendered:
<a class="th" href="http://localhost:8888/devproject/index.php"><img src="http://localhost:8888/devproject/Applications/MAMP/htdocs/devproject/public/images/picture.jpeg" style="width:100px;height:100px;" alt="work"></a>
This of course doesn't work because the path is incorrect but it is how it was stored. I need the path to the image to be :
/public/images/picture.jpeg
instead of this:
/Applications/MAMP/htdocs/devproject/public/images/picture.jpeg
as this would fit in the url and show the picture. Any advices on how to achieve this will be appreciated.

Answer 1

Don't save the whole path to the model, save just the filename:
$profileImg = $filename;
Then, instead of using $details->profileImg by itself, use:
asset('images/' . $details->profileImg)
i.e.:
{{ HTML::image('images/' . $details->profileImg, "work", array('style' => 'width:100px;height:100px;')) }}