Today, We will explain to you how to image upload with CKEditor in Laravel 9(Laravel 9 CKeditor Image Upload). CKEditor editor is one type of WYSIWYG HTML editors like TinyMCE.
When we need to store long text, article content, product summary, and different tag content with the description in our database we use the WYSIWYG HTML editors.
so you can follow our previous article for how to install CKeditor in laravel.
The WYSIWYG editor free to install our laravel application. let’s follow the below steps for how to upload an image using CKeditor in laravel.
Overview
Step 1: Install Laravel
Step 2: Create Route
Step 3: Create a Model and Controller
Step 4: Create Blade Files
Step 5: Run Our Laravel Application
Step 1: Install Laravel
We are going to install laravel 9, so first open the command prompt or terminal and go to xampp htdocs folder directory using the command prompt. after then run the below command.
composer create-project --prefer-dist laravel/laravel laravel9_ckeditor
Step 2: Create Route
Add the following route code in the “routes/web.php” file.
<?php
use App\Http\Controllers\ArticleController;
/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Web Routes
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| Here is where you can register web routes for your application. These
| routes are loaded by the RouteServiceProvider within a group which
| contains the "web" middleware group. Now create something great!
|
*/
Route::get('/', function () {
// return view('welcome');
});
Route::post('upload_image',[ArticleController::class, 'uploadImage'])->name('upload');
?>
Step 3: Create a Model and Controller
Here below command help to create the controller and model.
php artisan make:controller ArticleController --resource --model=Article
Article.php
<?php
namespace App\Models;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Factories\HasFactory;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
class Article extends Model
{
use HasFactory;
protected $fillable = [
'title','description', 'author_name'
];
}
?>
ArticleController.php
<?php
namespace App\Http\Controllers;
use App\Models\Article;
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use Response;
class ArticleController extends Controller
{
public function index()
{
return view('article-form');
}
public function uploadImage(Request $request) {
if($request->hasFile('upload')) {
$originName = $request->file('upload')->getClientOriginalName();
$fileName = pathinfo($originName, PATHINFO_FILENAME);
$extension = $request->file('upload')->getClientOriginalExtension();
$fileName = $fileName.'_'.time().'.'.$extension;
$request->file('upload')->move(public_path('images'), $fileName);
$CKEditorFuncNum = $request->input('CKEditorFuncNum');
$url = asset('images/'.$fileName);
$msg = 'Image uploaded successfully';
$response = "<script>window.parent.CKEDITOR.tools.callFunction($CKEditorFuncNum, '$url', '$msg')</script>";
@header('Content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8');
echo $response;
}
}
}
?>
Step 4: Create Blade Files
Finally, We will create the article-form.blade.php file in the “resources/views/” folder directory and paste the below code.
article-form.blade.php
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<link href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.0.0-beta/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet">
</head>
<body>
<div class="container">
<div class="row">
<div class="col-md-12">
<h1 class="text-center">Laravel 9 Integrate Ckeditor With Example - XpertPhp</h1><br>
<form method="post" action="{{ route('store.article') }}" class="form form-horizontal">
@csrf
<div class="form-group">
<label>Title</label>
<input type="text" name="title" class="form-control"/>
</div>
<div class="form-group">
<label>Description</label>
<textarea class="form-control" id="summary-ckeditor" name="summary-ckeditor"></textarea>
</div>
<div class="form-group">
<label>Author Name</label>
<input type="text" name="author" class="form-control"/>
</div>
<div class="form-group">
<input type="submit" value="Submit" class="btn btn-primary"/>
</div>
</form>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.2.1.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.0.0-beta/js/bootstrap.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="{{ asset('vendor/unisharp/laravel-ckeditor/ckeditor.js') }}"></script>
<script>
CKEDITOR.replace('summary-ckeditor', {
filebrowserUploadUrl: "{{route('upload', ['_token' => csrf_token() ])}}",
filebrowserUploadMethod: 'form'
});
</script>
</body>
</html>
Step 5: Run Our Laravel Application
We can start the server and run this example using the below command.
php artisan serve
Now we will run our example using the below Url in the browser.
http://127.0.0.1:8000/article