File Input Passing String To Controller

Question

I'm trying to upload files to my laravel site using <input type="file"> yet it seems to be passing a string to the controller. I have this test to see if its a file yet I keep getting File not ok.

        if (Input::hasFile('file')) {
            dd('File ok');
        }
        dd('File not ok');

Any ideas? Thanks

Normally you would write that as if (Input::hasFile('file')) { dd('File ok'); } else { dd('File not ok'); } — Raymond Nijland
– Raymond Nijland, Commented Aug 27, 2018 at 15:13
@Devon it has a name. Sorry forgot to include it in the example. — Ciarán Flanagan
– Ciarán Flanagan, Commented Aug 29, 2018 at 12:12

Qirel · Accepted Answer · 2018-08-27 15:50:54Z

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this may be you're not setting your form to enctype="multipart/form-data", it should be like this

<form method="POST" action="/your/url" enctype="multipart/form-data">

Or maybe, your input has no name attribute like

<input type="file" name="file">

edited Aug 27, 2018 at 15:50

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answered Aug 27, 2018 at 15:13

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2 Comments

r0ulito Over a year ago

I think it it the missing part of it was name Attribute laravel wont return a string

Ciarán Flanagan Over a year ago

The missing enctype="multipart/form-data" did the trick. Thanks

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