In this article, I am going to show how to create a file upload API using Laravel 8 and MySQL. API will test using Postman

• Open your project folder with a code editor.
• Open your Phpmyadmin and create a table name products, or paste the below code in SQL query

CREATE TABLE `products` (
 `id` int NOT NULL,
 `ProductName` varchar(200) CHARACTER SET utf8	 COLLATE utf8_general_ci DEFAULT NULL,
 `file_path` varchar(200) CHARACTER SET utf8	 COLLATE utf8_general_ci DEFAULT NULL,
 `description` varchar(200) CHARACTER SET utf8	 COLLATE utf8_general_ci DEFAULT NULL,
 `price` varchar(100) CHARACTER SET utf8	 COLLATE utf8_general_ci DEFAULT NULL,
 `updated_at` datetime NOT NULL,
 `created_at` datetime NOT NULL
) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8	 COLLATE=utf8_general_ci;

Once create successfully go to your code editor and create a controller and model

php artisan make:controller ProductController
php artisan make:Model Product

• Then go to your ProductController file and create a function addProduct and import Product models which
  were created in the previous step
• Jump on your ProductController file and paste the below code.

namespace App\Http\Controllers;

// use App\Models\File; use Validator;

use Illuminate\Http\Request;

use App\Models\Product;

class ProductController extends Controller
{
//
function addProduct(Request $req)
{
$product = new Product;
// $req->file('file')->store('products');
$product->ProductName=$req->input('name');
$product->price=$req->input('price');
$product->description=$req->input('description');
$product->file_path=$req->file('file')->store('products');
$product->save();
return $product;
}
}

Note:
$product->file_path=$req->file(‘file’)->store(‘products’); if you have not products folder then it will create folder automatically. (file) is your key

• Once create a function now you are ready to move on the api.php file under routes→api.php.Now you have to
  create a Route for addProduct ProductController.php

api.php

<?php

use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Route;
use App\Http\Controllers\UserController;
use App\Http\Controllers\ProductController;

/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| API Routes
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| Here is where you can register API routes for your application. These
| routes are loaded by the RouteServiceProvider within a group which
| is assigned the "api" middleware group. Enjoy building your API!
|
*/

Route::middleware('auth:api')->get('/user', function (Request $request) {
   return $request->user();
});
Route ::post('/addproduct',[ProductController::class,'addProduct']);
 

POST method is secure for data sending. it’s not showing data on the URL

Let’s check with the postman its working or not

Thanks for reading..