Cannot upload image with Intervention image

Is the avatar fillable on your User model?

Also you have broken syntax in the code you provided?

File:: // what's this supposed to be?

@JoeDawson , my bad. That was not supposed to be there. I have updated the question. avatar isn't fillable at the moment.

Avatar will need to be fillable for it to update, update your User model to allow filling of the avatar field.

https://laravel.com/docs/5.3/eloquent#mass-assignment

@JoeDawson , made it fillable in the User model. Still not working. I'm still unsure about some of the parts in the lines below due to my limited knowledge of Laravel. I don't know if some of those functions like public_path and Image::make() are working right

    $filename = time() . '.' . $avatar->getClientOriginalExtension();
        Image::make($avatar)->resize(200, 200)->save( public_path('/uploads/avatars/' . $filename ) );

@JoeDawson , I did a var_dump on the request object, and the result was NULL. Does that mean there's something wrong with the routes or blade?

@tomi , now it gives a huge feedback, but before I could copy it, the page crashes. I could see a lot of null arrays though

In your controller, do a dd() on the request.

dd($request->all());

Do you see any data?

@JoeDawson :

I did that and I think the problem was as follows:

The UserController is in fact a resource controller I made with artisan. Now it already has its own CRUD methods, plus in the routes file I also have a Route::resource('users','UserController');

Now inside of this controller, I had created the updateAvatar function and given it a route of

Route::post('profile', 'UserController@updateAvatar');

What I did then was do a dd on the request while it was being sent to updateAvatar. Got no response, just a blank page. Then I put the dd in the UserController@store method, and in the form set the

``route`=>`users.store`` 

Now it successfully shows the following:

array:2 [▼
    "_token" => "of2rLg73Yzdj8pbM8nmqlUPSxSbHdSrRoPzTBQoI"
    "avatar" => "089253d.jpg"
]

However, when I do a

if($request->hasFile('avatar')){
    die('there is a file');
}
else
    die('theres no file');

it says that theres no file.

What does your form look like?

It's just a file selection button, and a submit button.

But could you provide some code please?

@JoeDawson , sorry about that mate, thought I'd put the new form code above as well:

{{Form::open(['method'=>'POST','route' => 'users.store', 'files' => true, 'role'=> 'form']) }}
    {{Form::label('file', 'Update image') }}
    {{Form::file('avatar',null)}}
    {{Form::submit('Update',['class' => 'pull-left btn btn-sm btn-primary']) }}
    {{Form::close() }}

@omrakhurs no problem man - what happens when you do a dd() of the file itself?

dd($request->file('avatar'));

You should have an UploadedFile object.

Gives null

Weird...

Try these routes.

Route::post('users/avatar', ['as' => 'users.updateAvatar', 'uses' => 'UserController@updateAvatar']);
Route::resource('users','UserController');

Update your form opening to use the route users.updateAvatar. You can also remove the method part as it will use POST method as a default.

{{Form::open(['route' => 'users.updateAvatar', 'files' => true, 'role'=> 'form']) }}

Now try dd() your avatar file.

dd($request->file('avatar'));

Do you still get the same?

Okay, accidental solution found. I deleted the entire blade file. Made a new form in the new blade file and stored it with a different name. Now when I dd, it says that there is a file. I also did a view:clear on artisan.