Laravel Multiple File Upload

Learn how to upload multiple files with Laravel. It's actually fairly simple and in this video we'll walk you through step-by-step on how to perform this functionality.

Below you can find the code to the view, route file, and the controller.

view file (inside body tags of welcome.blade.php)

<form action="upload" id="upload" enctype="multipart/form-data">
    <input type="file" name="file[]" multiple><br />
    <input type="submit">
</form>
<div id="message"></div>

<script>
var form = document.getElementById('upload');
var request = new XMLHttpRequest();

form.addEventListener('submit', function(e){
    e.preventDefault();
    var formdata = new FormData(form);

    request.open('post', '/upload');
    request.addEventListener("load", transferComplete);
    request.send(formdata);

});

function transferComplete(data){
    response = JSON.parse(data.currentTarget.response);
    if(response.success){
        document.getElementById('message').innerHTML = "Successfully Uploaded Files!";
    }
}
</script>

route file (upload route in routes.php)

Route::post('upload', 'UploadController@upload');

controller file (UploadController.php)

<?php

namespace App\Http\Controllers;

use Illuminate\Http\Request;

use Storage;

use App\Http\Requests;
use App\Http\Controllers\Controller;

class UploadController extends Controller
{
    //

    public function upload(Request $request){
    	$files = $request->file('file');

    	if(!empty($files)):

    		foreach($files as $file):
    			Storage::put($file->getClientOriginalName(), file_get_contents($file));
    		endforeach;

    	endif;

    	return \Response::json(array('success' => true));
    }
}

Hope this will help you in your future projects :) Please feel free to post any comments or questions below. Thanks.