form update with file upload laravel

Question

I'm having a bit of an issue when it comes to updating a form and and having an file input. Here is what I am working with.

I have a form in laravel 5.1 which has a post method and a hidden 'Patch' method. This works as is should updating the fields that are in the form. However, when it introduce:

<input type="file" id="profile_picture" name="image_url" />

into the form, i get a:

MethodNotAllowedHttpException in RouteCollection.php line 218:

laravel error. I have tried changing the

 <input type='hidden' name='_method' value='PATCH'>

to PUT and it still doesnt like it.

My form looks like this:

<form action='{{url("profiles/$user->id")}}' method="post" class="form-horizontal" enctype="multipart/form-data">

route resource looks like this:

Route::resource('profiles', 'ProfilesController');

I can't figure out what I am missing here...Any help is much appreciated.

Answer 1

I believe it has to do with the exact route you are typing out in the "action" parameter matching up with the profile controller's update method.

Try changing

action'{{url("profiles/$user->id")}}'

to

action='{{ route("profiles.update", $user->id) }}'

Additionally, you could use the Laravel Collective HTML package to simply opening and closing of forms.

Answer 2

Also for POST Request types, you need to send the CSRF token along with your form data. If you are using laravel blade template in your view, you may use

{{ csrf_field() }}

which translates to

<input type="hidden" name="_token" value={{ csrf_token() }}

Please refer the documentation for this.