I am going to explain you example of laravel 8 image upload example. I’m going to show you about image upload in laravel 8. this example will help you laravel 8 upload image to database. This article goes in detailed on how to upload and display image in laravel 8. Here, Creating a basic example of laravel 8 image upload with preview.

In this example, we will create two routes one for get method and another for post method. we created simple form with file input. So you have to simple select image and then it will upload in “images” directory of public folder. So you have to simple follow bellow step and get image upload in laravel 8 application.

Step 1 : Install Laravel 8

First of all, we need to get fresh laravel 8 version application using bellow command because we are going from scratch, So open your terminal OR command prompt and run bellow command:

composer create-project --prefer-dist laravel/laravel blog

Step 2: Create Routes

In next step, we will add new two routes in web.php file. One route for generate form and another for post method So let’s simply create both route as bellow listed:

routes/web.php

<?php

use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Route;

use App\Http\Controllers\ImageUploadController;

Route::get('image-upload', [ ImageUploadController::class, 'imageUpload' ])->name('image.upload');
Route::post('image-upload', [ ImageUploadController::class, 'imageUploadPost' ])->name('image.upload.post');

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