Provide a Laravel backend for handling file upload
It is recommended to install this package with PHP version 7.1.3+ and Laravel Framework version 5.5+
composer require bkstar123/laravel-uploader
You can upload files to the backend either via a normal form submit or via AJAX calls (built by yourself or any third party plugins).
Note:
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Form submit supports only single file upload. For multiple files upload, you should use AJAX to send files in parallel requests
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The package also includes a frontend fileinput plugin from Krajee for quickly demonstrating the AJAX uploading. The assets included in the package are barely minimum and may not be up to date. You should consult http://plugins.krajee.com/file-input for the latest version and more advanced use cases of the plugin
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The Krajee plugin's full version can be installed via
npm install bootstrap-fileinput -
In order to use the included frontend assets, run
php artisan vendor:publish --tag=bkstar123_fileupload.assets
Firstly, you typehint Bkstar123\LaravelUploader\Contracts\FileUpload in a controller constructor to inject a FileUpload service.
use Bkstar123\LaravelUploader\Contracts\FileUpload;
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protected $fileupload;
public function __construct(FileUpload $fileupload)
{
$this->fileupload = $fileupload;
}Then, in the method which is supposed to handle a file upload request, you call
$this->fileupload->handle(Request $request, string $fieldname, array $uploadSettings)Where:
- $request: full Laravel request object
- $fieldname: name of the file input field in your frontend
- $uploadSettings (optional): inline settings to customize the behavior of the backend
$uploadSettings is an asociative array with the following possible keys:
directory: the root directory containing your uploaded filesdisk: the storage disk for file upload. Check Laravel official documentation for more details, e.g:public,s3maxFileSize(in bytes): the maximum size of an uploaded file that can be accepted by the backendallowedExtensions: array of acceptable file extensions, e.g:['jpg', 'png', 'pdf']
The backend default settings are as follows:
- 'directory': 'media'
- 'disk': 'public'
- 'maxFileSize': 50 MB
- 'allowedExtensions': 'png','jpg','jpeg','mp4','doc','docx','ppt','pptx','xls','xlsx','txt','pdf'
You can change these default settings by using the following environment variables in .env:
BKSTAR123_LARAVEL_UPLOADER_DEFAULT_DISKBKSTAR123_LARAVEL_UPLOADER_DEFAULT_DIRECTORYBKSTAR123_LARAVEL_UPLOADER_DEFAULT_MAX_FILE_SIZE(in bytes)
Note: The inline settings will overwrite the default ones
If the upload succeeds,$this->fileupload->handle(Request $request, string $fieldname, array $uploadSettings) will return the following data for being further persisted to database:
[
'filename' => 'the original file name',
'path' => 'path to file location relative to the disk storage',
'url' => 'public url to access the file in browser',
'disk' => 'name of storage disk'
]If the uploaded file is not valid, then false will be returned and an error message will be set for $this->fileupload->uploadError
(Only support single file upload)
Example:
<form action="/upload" method="POST" role="form" enctype="multipart/form-data">
@csrf()
<input class="form-control" type="file" name="photo" id="photo" />
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Upload" />
</form>(Support sending multiple files in parallel requests)
Example:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>File Upload</title>
<meta name="csrf-token" content="{{ csrf_token() }}">
<link href="{{ mix('/css/app.css') }}" rel="stylesheet">
<script src="{{ mix('/js/app.js') }}"></script>
<!-- You must embed fileinput CSS and Javascript as follows -->
<script src="/vendor/fileupload/js/fileinput/fileinput.min.js"></script>
<link href="/vendor/fileupload/css/fileinput/fileinput.min.css" rel="stylesheet">
</head>
<body>
<input class="form-control" type="file" name="photo" id="photo" multiple />
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function(){
$.ajaxSetup({
headers: {
'X-CSRF-TOKEN': $('meta[name="csrf-token"]').attr('content')
}
});
$("#photo").fileinput(
{
uploadUrl: '/upload',
maxFileCount: 5,
maxFileSize: 10420, //in KBs
allowedFileExtensions: ['jpg', 'png', 'pdf'],
previewFileType:'any',
showUpload: false
}
).on("filebatchselected", function(event, files) {
$("#photo").fileinput("upload");
});
});
</script>
</body>
</html>Note: When using Krajee fileinput plugin, you must return a json response from the controller method which handles the upload request as follows:
if ($path = $this->fileupload->handle($request, 'photo', $uploadSettings)) {
// Persist $path data to database
return json_encode([]);
}
return json_encode([
'error' => $this->fileupload->uploadError
]);You can check its full documentation at https://github.com/bkstar123/jquery-ajax-uploader
Example use:
a) Installation
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npm install --save-dev @bkstar18/jquery-ajax-uploader -
In
resources/js/bootstrap.js, place the following line:
try {
window.Popper = require('popper.js').default;
window.$ = window.jQuery = require('jquery');
require('bootstrap');
require('@bkstar18/jquery-ajax-uploader'); // Add this line
} catch (e) {}-
Then, compile your assets using
laravel-mix:npm run production -
Alternatively, if you do not want to bundle this plugin into the main app.js, you can place the following line in
webpack.mix.js:
mix.js('resources/js/app.js', 'public/js')
.copy('node_modules/@bkstar18/jquery-ajax-uploader/dist/bkstar123-ajax-uploader.min.js', 'public/js/bkstar123-ajax-uploader.min.js') // Add this line
.sass('resources/sass/app.scss', 'public/css');Then, include <script src="/js/bkstar123-ajax-uploader.min.js"></script> in any view where you want to use the plugin. Remember to load JQuery before using the plugin.
b) In HTML section
<div class="form-group">
<label for="image-upload">Upload Images</label>
<input type="file" class="form-control" name="image" id="image-upload" multiple>
<div class="gallery" id="gallery"></div>
</div>c) In Javascript section
$(document).ready(function () {
$('#image-upload').bkstar123_ajaxuploader({
allowedExtensions: ['png','jpg','jpeg'],
batchSize: 5,
outerClass: 'col-md-12',
uploadUrl: '/api/upload',
beforeSend: (xhr) => {
xhr.setRequestHeader('X-AUTHOR', 'TUANHA');
},
onResponse: (response) => {
let res = JSON.parse(response)
$('#gallery').append(`<img id=${res.data.filename} src="${res.data.url}" width="50px">`);
}
});
});d) In Laravel Controller method
public function upload(Request $request, FileUpload $fileupload)
{
$data = $fileupload->handle($request, 'image', ['allowedExtensions' => ['jpg', 'png', 'jpeg']]);
if (!$data) {
return response()->json(['error' => $fileupload->uploadError], 422);
}
// Saving data to database
return response()->json(['success' => "{$data['filename']} has been successfully uploaded", 'data' => $data], 200);
}Note:
You should make sure that the page html layout has the following <meta> tag:
<meta name="csrf-token" content="{{ csrf_token() }}">Otherwise, the request may be blocked by Laravel by default. See more details at https://laravel.com/docs/5.8/csrf#csrf-x-csrf-token.
The plugin automatically checks the existence of this <meta> tag, get its content and associate X-CSRF-TOKEN header with the uploading request.
Alternatively, if and only if this <meta> tag does not exist (maybe you do not want to use, or for somewhat reasons), then you can include X-CSRF-TOKEN request header before sending files to server via beforeSend(xhr) hook as follows:
$(document).ready(function () {
$('#image-upload').bkstar123_ajaxuploader({
...
beforeSend: (xhr) => {
xhr.setRequestHeader('X-CSRF-TOKEN', {!! json_encode(csrf_token()) !!});
},
...
});
});Check https://github.com/bkstar123/vue-ajax-uploader for details.
You can physically delete an uploaded file as in following example:
$this->fileupload->delete($photo->disk, $photo->path) In this example, the photos table must have disk and path columns to persist a photo instance.
You should physically remove an uploaded file only after deleting its relevant record in the database.