README

The package offers you a more convenient way to manage file uploads in Laravel.

Instead of reinventing the wheel at each file-upload managing your uploaded files will be easy and consistent.

• Upload file with unique name, without concurrency problems.
• Store client-side informations of uploaded files in FileDescriptors.
• File object for ease of managing files in your application.
• Helper trait for your Eloquent models to easily create accessors/mutators.
• User friendly replacement of regular <input type="file"/>

By default the package is configured to upload images but you can use for any mime type.

Installation

composer require "zotyo/u-filer"

After downloading the package, add PackageServiceProvider to the providers array of your config/app.php

Zotyo\uFiler\PackageServiceProvider::class

Finally you should publish config of the package with some examples.

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Zotyo\uFiler\PackageServiceProvider"

Usage

Several components come with the package to reduce the effort of implementing a proper file-upload.

File-input

You can publish a file-input.vue component into your /resources/assets/js/components folder. Modify the component so it would fit into your design.

<div class="form-group">
    <label for="avatar">Avatar</label>
    <file-input id="avatar" v-model="user.avatar"></file-input>
</div>

The vue-component uploads the file to a specific endpoint.

Note: You can avoid VueJS at all if you want so.

Endpoint(Route+Controller)

The package provides an Http endpoint for uploading files. You can disable the endpoint int the configuration file. If you would like to define your custom endpoint, you can still reuse UploadControllerTrait.

Method    | URI               | Name          | Action
POST      | upload            | upload        | Zotyo\uFiler\Http\UploadController@upload

Eloquent

The HasFile trait provides methods so you can easily create accessors/mutators in you model. In the following example User's avatar is a file.

<?php

namespace App;

use Illuminate\Foundation\Auth\User as Authenticatable;
use Zotyo\uFiler\HasFile;

class User extends Authenticatable
{

    use HasFile;
    protected $fillable = ['avatar'];
    protected $appends  = ['avatar'];

    public function getAvatarAttribute()
    {
        return $this->getFile('avatar');
    }

    public function setAvatarAttribute($value)
    {
        $this->setFile('avatar', $value);
    }
}

Validation

Don't forget to validate files when submitting your entities. The package provides the verify-file-by-token validation rule to avoid hijacking of files.

<?php

namespace App\Http\Requests;

use Illuminate\Foundation\Http\FormRequest;

class UserFormRequest extends FormRequest
{
    public function rules()
    {
        return [
            'avatar' => 'required|verify-file-by-token'
        ];
    }
}