Laravel 5.7 multiple file upload with validation example

September 20, 2018 | Category : Laravel 5.7 Laravel PHP

In this post, i will show you step by step how to multiple file upload in laravel 5.7 application. we also learn how to add validation with multiple file uploading in laravel 5.7 app. Using this example, you will get idea to upload multiple images with laravel 5.7.

We are going from starch so, we will upload multiple file and store on server then after we will store database too. so in this example we will create "files" table using laravel migration and write code for route, controller and view step by step.

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So here you have to just follow bellow step to create Laravel 5.7 multiple File Upload with Validation Example.

Step 1: Install Laravel 5.7

In the first step, we will download a new simple copy source code of Laravel App project by typing the some following command.

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

Step 2: Create Migration and Model

Here, we need create database migration for files table and also we will create model for files table.

php artisan make:migration create_files_table

Migration:

<?php


use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Schema;

use Illuminate\Database\Schema\Blueprint;

use Illuminate\Database\Migrations\Migration;


class CreateFormsTable extends Migration

{

public function up()

{

Schema::create('files', function (Blueprint $table) {

$table->increments('id');

$table->string('filenames');

$table->timestamps();

});

}


public function down()

{

Schema::dropIfExists('files');

}

}

php artisan migrate

now we will create File model by using following command:

php artisan make:model File

Step 3: Create Routes

In third step, we will create routes for multiple file upload. so create two route with GET and POST route example.

routes/web.php

Route::get('file','FileController@create');

Route::post('file','FileController@store');

Step 4: Add FileController File

Now we require to add new FileController controller for manage route So let's create FileController with create and store method. Make sure you need to create "files" folder in your public directory.

app/Http/Controllers/FileController.php

<?php


namespace App\Http\Controllers;


use Illuminate\Http\Request;


class FileController extends Controller

{

/**

* Show the application dashboard.

*

* @return \Illuminate\Http\Response

*/

public function create()

{

return view('create');

}


/**

* Show the application dashboard.

*

* @return \Illuminate\Http\Response

*/

public function store(Request $request)

{


$this->validate($request, [

'filenames' => 'required',

'filenames.*' => 'mimes:doc,pdf,docx,zip'

]);


if($request->hasfile('filenames'))

{

foreach($request->file('filenames') as $file)

{

$name=$file->getClientOriginalName();

$file->move(public_path().'/files/', $name);

$data[] = $name;

}

}


$file= new File();

$file->filenames=json_encode($data);

$file->save();


return back()->with('success', 'Data Your files has been successfully added');

}

}

Step 5: Create View File

in this step we need to create create.blade.php file in resources folder. So let's create file:

resources/views/create.blade.php

<html lang="en">

<head>

<title>Laravel 5.6 Multiple File Upload Example</title>

<script src="jquery/1.9.1/jquery.js"></script>

<link rel="stylesheet" href="3.3.6/css/bootstrap.min.css">

</head>

<body>


<div class="container lst">


@if (count($errors) > 0)

<div class="alert alert-danger">

<strong>Sorry!</strong> There were more problems with your HTML input.<br><br>

<ul>

@foreach ($errors->all() as $error)

<li>{{ $error }}</li>

@endforeach

</ul>

</div>

@endif


@if(session('success'))

<div class="alert alert-success">

{{ session('success') }}

</div>

@endif


<h3 class="well">Laravel 5.6 Multiple File Upload</h3>

<form method="post" action="{{url('file')}}" enctype="multipart/form-data">

{{csrf_field()}}


<div class="input-group hdtuto control-group lst increment" >

<input type="file" name="filenames[]" class="myfrm form-control">

<div class="input-group-btn">

<button class="btn btn-success" type="button"><i class="fldemo glyphicon glyphicon-plus"></i>Add</button>

</div>

</div>

<div class="clone hide">

<div class="hdtuto control-group lst input-group" style="margin-top:10px">

<input type="file" name="filenames[]" class="myfrm form-control">

<div class="input-group-btn">

<button class="btn btn-danger" type="button"><i class="fldemo glyphicon glyphicon-remove"></i> Remove</button>

</div>

</div>

</div>


<button type="submit" class="btn btn-success" style="margin-top:10px">Submit</button>


</form>

</div>


<script type="text/javascript">

$(document).ready(function() {

$(".btn-success").click(function(){

var lsthmtl = $(".clone").html();

$(".increment").after(lsthmtl);

});

$("body").on("click",".btn-danger",function(){

$(this).parents(".hdtuto control-group lst").remove();

});

});

</script>


</body>

</html>

Now you can simple run and check it.

I hope you found your best solution...