I have installed Spatie Media Library exactly how it is described on their docs. However, every time I try to save a media file with addMediaFromRequest('keyName')
I get this error:
The current request does not have a file in a key named
keyName
Every installation and getting started guide, such as this one on Laravel-News.com, is telling me to put this in my controller:
if (isset($data['avatar'])) {
$user->addMediaFromRequest('avatar')->toMediaCollection('avatars');
}
That's also what I have done. Nevertheless I still get this "... request does not have a file ..." error... which really annoys me. I follow exactly the instalttion guides but it is not working.
This is how my Models, Controllers and View looks like for the registration procedure:
User.php:
use Glorand\Model\Settings\Traits\HasSettingsField;
use Illuminate\Contracts\Auth\MustVerifyEmail;
use Illuminate\Foundation\Auth\User as Authenticatable;
use Illuminate\Notifications\Notifiable;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Auth;
use Spatie\Permission\Traits\HasRoles;
use Spatie\Permission\Models\Role;
use Spatie\MediaLibrary\HasMedia\HasMediaTrait;
use Spatie\MediaLibrary\HasMedia\HasMedia;
use Spatie\MediaLibrary\Models\Media;
class User extends Authenticatable implements HasMedia
{
use Notifiable;
use HasRoles;
use HasSettingsField;
use HasMediaTrait;
// ...
}
RegisterController.php (Note my // comments):
protected function create(array $data)
{
$user = User::create([
'name' => $data['name'],
'email' => $data['email'],
'password' => Hash::make($data['password']),
]);
//If I check, if the avatar is set, I create a user without avatar
if (isset($data['avatar'])) {
$user->addMediaFromRequest('avatar')->toMediaCollection('avatars');
}
//If I don't check it, it leads to "... request does not have a file ..." error
$user->addMediaFromRequest('avatar')->toMediaCollection('avatars');
return $user;
}
register.blade.php:
// ...
<div class="form-group row">
<label for="avatar" class="col-md-4 col-form-label text-md-right">{{ __('Avatar (optional)') }}</label>
<div class="col-md-6">
<input id="avatar" type="file" class="form-control" name="avatar">
</div>
</div>
// ...
The same also goes for other controllers where I want to give the possibility to upload avatars. For example my UserController leads to the same problem.
UserController.php
// ...
public function update(Request $request, User $user)
{
if (isset($request->avatar)) {
$user->addMediaFromRequest('avatar')->toMediaCollection('avatars');
}
}
// ...
However, if I dump the $request->avatar
it is not empty! I get this:
Illuminate\Http\UploadedFile {#473 ▼
-test: false
-originalName: "23133.png"
-mimeType: "application/octet-stream"
-error: 1
#hashName: null
path: ""
filename: ""
basename: ""
pathname: ""
extension: ""
realPath: "/Users/myname/Desktop/Coding/MyProject/public"
aTime: 1970-01-01 00:00:00
mTime: 1970-01-01 00:00:00
cTime: 1970-01-01 00:00:00
inode: false
size: false
perms: 00
owner: false
group: false
type: false
writable: false
readable: false
executable: false
file: false
dir: false
link: false
}
I finally found my error. My system is running on a Mac with Catalina. The problem is that I was hosting my project locally with php artisan serve
. For some reason there where a problem with the permission to access the temp folder.
I am now running on valet
without any hassle or error... maybe it's gonna help someone!