文件未被发送到控制器

Question

I am trying to open a form which will take in a picture (from the camera) and than send it to my controller in laravel.

Does any body know why this is not working?

Form in laravel:

    <div style="width: 0; height: 0; overflow: hidden;">
   {{ Form::open(array('route' => 'upload_photo', 'files' => true)) }}
      <input type="file" onchange="this.form.submit();" id="camera_input" name="camera_input" accept="image/*" capture="camera" />             
</div>
   <button class="btn btn-primary btn-lg normal-font" type="button" onclick="takePicture();">Take Picture And Upload</button>
   {{ Form::close(); }}

Javascript which will simply just open the camera/file select on click:

function takePicture() {
   document.getElementById("camera_input").click();
}

Laravel controller: All I am doing is this to try to see if the file gets put over here:

   public function upload_photo() {
      $file = Input::file('camera_input');
      var_dump($file);
   }

It is getting NULL printed out for $file though... Anyone know what I am doing wrong?

Answer 1

I got it apparently my input type needed: enctype="multipart/form-data"

I thought have files => true on the form for laravel would do this and thats what that was for but apparently it needed to be on the input type. Maybe because I didnt use laravel's Form::file()