Call to a member function extension() on string

Question

I have tried to upload the image using Postman and the image is stored in the preferred directory and the full path is stored in database but i am getting the error response

"message": "Call to a member function extension() on string",

here is my code

public function store(AvatarUploadRequest $request, UserService $userService) {
$user = $request->user();
try {

$file = $request->file('avatar');
$file = url("/avatars") . "/" . $user->uuid . ".jpg";
$destinationPath = "avatars";
$user->avatar = $request->file('avatar')->move($destinationPath, $file)
->getClientOriginalExtension();
$user->avatar = $file;
$user->save();
  $userService->updateAvatar($user, $file);
} 
catch (\Exception $e) {
  return jsonApiResponse([
    'avatar' => $e->getMessage(),
  ], 422);
}
return jsonApiResponseWithData($user, 201);

}

In the snippet you have shown there are no occurrence of `extension` function. Please show error stracktrace with line numbers and show correct block of code. — Michał Szczech, Jul 06 '18 at 06:11
->getClientOriginalExtension(); is probably whats causing that problem — Toby Okeke, Jul 06 '18 at 06:29

score 12 · Answer 1 · edited Apr 03 '23 at 17:25

12

I was getting the same error. I realized I had missed this in form:

enctype="multipart/form-data"

edited Apr 03 '23 at 17:25

user16217248

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answered May 04 '21 at 08:36

Danish Memon

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score 3 · Answer 2 · edited Apr 03 '23 at 23:18

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You have to add
enctype="multipart/form-data" - in the form:

<form ... enctype="multipart/form-data">
 ...
</form>

so you can use function like extension() or validator like

"mimes : png , jpg , jpeg"

edited Apr 03 '23 at 23:18

Azade

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answered Jun 22 '21 at 08:28

Mohamed Zaki

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score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 06 '18 at 10:23

Remove this line (it seems you do not use it anyway):

->getClientOriginalExtension();

So this should work:

public function store(AvatarUploadRequest $request, UserService $userService) {
    $user = $request->user();
    try {
        $file = $request->file('avatar');
        $file = url("/avatars") . "/" . $user->uuid . ".jpg";
        $destinationPath = "avatars";
        $user->avatar = $request->file('avatar')->move($destinationPath, $file);
        $user->avatar = $file;
        $user->save();
        $userService->updateAvatar($user, $file);
    } catch (\Exception $e) {
         return jsonApiResponse([
             'avatar' => $e->getMessage(),
         ], 422);
    }
    return jsonApiResponseWithData($user, 201);
}

Call to a member function extension() on string

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