Seed fake images in laravel

Question

I'm trying to generate a fake image to populate seeder data.

I created a seeder with this:

$this->faker->image(storage_path('app/public/products'), 500, 500)

When I try to access them through Laravel Nova to see them, I get this kind of URL: http://localhost/storage/var/www/html/storage/app/public/products/c8831002794cc55fe046c5e2b65794d4.png

In the DB it's saved as: /var/www/html/storage/app/public/products/c8831002794cc55fe046c5e2b65794d4.png

Any idea what I've done wrong?

Does this answer your question? I want to add in database table just name of image, NOT a whole path of image and I want to do with Factory and Seeds — miken32
– miken32, Commented Feb 19, 2023 at 2:11

ceejayoz · Accepted Answer · 2023-02-18 22:06:27Z

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See the method signature for image():

function image(
    ?string $dir = null,
    int $width = 640,
    int $height = 480,
    ?string $category = null,
    bool $fullPath = true,
    bool $randomize = true,
    ?string $word = null,
    bool $gray = false,
    string $format = 'png'
)

Setting $fullPath to false will fix your issue:

$this->faker->image(storage_path('app/public/products'), 500, 500, null, false)

answered Feb 18, 2023 at 22:06

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Jonathan Lafleur Over a year ago

Now it's returning localhost/storage/3bf64f4fc195f024288ea2cf282513e5.png And in the database there's only the filename 3bf64f4fc195f024288ea2cf282513e5.png Maybe I'm missing something in Nova... i'll go re-read this doc.

Jonathan Lafleur Over a year ago

So yeah, my code follow the doc, the problem is that in the database it's not storing the path "after" the disk path, for instance here the products/ part should be in the db. I can prepend it to the faker results, but is there a more "standard" way of doing it ?

jmvcollaborator · Accepted Answer · 2023-02-18 23:28:55Z

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Try this:

$this->faker->image('app/public/products',400,300, null, false)

if you have a view then:

<img src="/my/path/{{ $item->image}}" >

answered Feb 18, 2023 at 23:28

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