Spark prepending URL to images

You'd have to swap the UpdateProfilePhoto@handle method.

Put this in the booted() method of SparkServiceProvider

Spark::swap('UpdateProfilePhoto@handle', function ($user, $data) {
    $file = $data['photo'];

    $path = $file->hashName('profiles');

    // We will store the profile photos on the "public" disk, which is a convention
    // for where to place assets we want to be publicly accessible. Then, we can
    // grab the URL for the image to store with this user in the database row.
    $disk = Storage::disk('public');

    $disk->put(
        $path, $this->formatImage($file)
    );

    $oldPhotoUrl = $user->photo_url;
        
    $user->forceFill([
        'photo_url' => $disk->url($path),
    ])->save();

    if (preg_match('/profiles\/(.*)$/', $oldPhotoUrl, $matches)) {
        $disk->delete('profiles/'.$matches[1]);
    }
});

I just copied the original method into it above. You'd just adjust it how you need it.

I kinda already thought about that and I got so frustrated that I bypassed that function altogether and wrote my own code to upload and store the image. Yet there is still some snippet of code somewhere that injects that path.

So, I eventually realized that the code may be prepending the URL because I was settign the photo_url variable to a relative path /Profile/image.jpg. When I set it to the full address, nothing was prepended.