John Davidson

Message:

I am currently trying to upload multiple files through an API endpoint. It's a POST request, its body contains form-data.

I am unable to get it through for each loop, though it works just fine if there's no foreach and there's only one file.

Code that doesn't work:

$path = config('app.photos_dir');



        if($request->hasFile('photos'))

        {

                if (!file_exists($path)) {

                    mkdir($path, 0777, true);

                }

                try {

                    $files = $request->file('photos');



                    foreach ($files as $file){

                        $file->move($path, $files->getClientOriginalName());

                    }

                    

                } catch (\Exception $exception) {



                    return response(['status' => '500', 'error' => 'Error while uploading files'], 500);

                }

                

                return response(['status' => '200', 'data' => ['Photos uploaded correctly']], 200);





        }

         

As outlined above, it starts working once I remove foreach clause(although this will only upload the first/last file selected in the 'upload' windows prompt)

$files = $request->file('photos');

                    $files->move($path, $files->getClientOriginalName());

Not really sure what is wrong here. I found other folks which had no problems in looping through the request files, but in my case, it won't go no matter what I do.

---

My Answer:
>hasFile('photos')) {
foreach($request->file('photos') as $photo) {
$filename = $photo->getClientOriginalName();
$photo->move($path, $filename);
}
}

return response()->json(['message' => 'Files uploaded successfully']);
}

In this code snippet, we are trying to upload multiple files by iterating over the files in the request using a foreach loop. However, this code may not work as expected because the `file()` method returns an array of UploadedFile objects, and we need to use the `hasFile()` method to check if files are present in the request.

To fix this issue, we need to modify the code as follows:

php
$path = config('app.photos_dir');

if($request->hasFile('photos')) {
$photos = $request->file('photos');

foreach($photos as $photo) {
$filename = $photo->getClientOriginalName();
$photo->move($path, $filename);
}
}

return response()->json(['message' => 'Files uploaded successfully']);


By storing the files in a variable before iterating over them, we ensure that we are working with an array of UploadedFile objects. This should allow us to successfully upload multiple files using Laravel.