Adding an id to a file

File input doesn't have a value, do it like :

{{ Form::file('image', array('id' => 'img_add')) }}

Awesome, thanks. Is there a way to get a name to it. I'm busy creating a drag and drop for my site. I have the drag and drop working but I need to save the image to the database.

This is the code in the create.blade.php for the upload

<div class="this-img" id="img_add">Upload </div>

@cmgmyr - That didn't work

I am not sure what you mean by "adding a name to it" if you want to create something like

<input name="my_file" type="file" id="img_add">

then use

{{ Form::file('my_file', array('id' => 'img_add')) }}

the first parameter is the input file name.

This is what originally had in my create.blade.php

{{ HTML::style('css/uploadfile.css') }}
{{ HTML::script('js/jquery.uploadfile.js') }}
<script>
var settings = {
                url: '{{ asset("upload/upload.php") }}',
                dragDrop:true,
                multiple : false,
                showFileCounter:false,
                showDone: false,
                fileName: "myfile",
                allowedTypes:"jpg,png,gif,pdf", 
                //returnType:"json",
                showDelete:true,
            }
</script>

<div class="this-img" id="img_add">Upload </div>
var uploadObj = $("#img_add").uploadFile(settings);

That allows for me to drag and drop my files and the "Upload" is displayed as text on the site, but this code doesn't save to the database, so what I would like to do is have the "Upload" that is between

<div class="this-img" id="img_add">

and

</div>

be shown as text on the site by using

{{ Form::file('image', array('id' => 'img_add')) }}

which allows for me to save to the database. I want to merge the two together. Does that make sense?

Any ideas

So I slightly changed my create.blade.php to have this

<div id="fileuploader">
Upload
{{ form::file('image', array('class' => 'fileImage')) }}
</div>
<script>
$(document).ready(function()
{
$("#fileuploader").uploadFile({
url:'{{asset("upload/upload.php") }}',
fileName:"myfile"
});
});
</script>

My file is being uploaded to the correct place but I'm still not able to save my image to the database.

url:'{{asset("upload/upload.php") }}',

I'm not sure how much we'll be able to help you if you're just using a procedural PHP script.