ImageController

<?php

namespace App\Http\Controllers;
use Illuminate\Routing\Controller as BaseController;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Request as Request;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\View as  View;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Validator;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Input;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Redirect;
use Illuminate\Support\Str;
use Config;
use DB;
use App\Models\Photo;
use App\Url;


class ImageController extends BaseController {


    public function getIndex()
    {

        //Let's load the form view
        return View::make('tpl.index');
    }
    public function postIndex()
    {

        //Let's validate the form first with the rules which a reset at the model
        $validation = Validator::make(Request::all(),Photo::$upload_rules);
        $url = new Url;

        //If the validation fails, we redirect the user to theindex page, with the error messages
        if($validation->fails()) {
            return Redirect::to('/')->withInput()->withErrors($validation);
        }
        else {

            //If the validation passes, we upload the image to the database and process it
            $image = Input::file('image');

            //This is the original uploaded client name of the image
            $filename = $image->getClientOriginalName();
            //Because Symfony API does not provide filename//without extension, we will be using raw PHP here
            $filename = pathinfo($filename, PATHINFO_FILENAME);

            //We should salt and make an url-friendly version of//the filename
            //(In ideal application, you should check the filename//to be unique)
            $fullname = Str::slug(Str::random(8).$filename).'.'.$image->getClientOriginalExtension();

            //We upload the image first to the upload folder, thenget make a thumbnail from the uploaded image
            $upload = $image->move(config('app.upload_folder'),$fullname);

            //Our model that we've created is named Photo, thislibrary has an alias named Image, don't mix them two!
            //These parameters are related to the image processing class that we've included, not really related toLaravel
            //Image::make(Config::get( 'image.upload_folder').'/'.$fullname)->resize(Config::get( 'image.thumb_width'),null, true)->save(Config::get( 'image.thumb_folder').'/'.$fullname);

            //If the file is now uploaded, we show an error message to the user, else we add a new column to the databaseand show the success message
            if($upload) {

                //image is now uploaded, we first need to add columnto the database
                $insert_id = DB::table('photos')->insertGetId(
                    array(
                        'title' => Input::get('title'),
                        'image' => $fullname
                    )
                );

                //Now we redirect to the image's permalink
                return Redirect::to(URL::to('snatch/'.$insert_id))->with('success','Your image is uploaded successfully!');
            } else {
                //image cannot be uploaded
                return Redirect::to('/')->withInput()->with('error','Sorry, the image could not be uploaded, please try again later');
            }
        }
    }
    public function getSnatch($id) {
        //Let's try to find the image from database first
        $image = Photo::find($id);
        //If found, we load the view and pass the image info as parameter, else we redirect to main page with error message
        if($image) {
            return View::make('tpl.permalink')->with('image',$image);
        } else {
            return Redirect::to('/')->with('error','Image not found');
        }
    }


    public function getAll(){

        //Let's first take all images with a pagination feature
        $all_images = DB::table('photos')->orderBy('id','desc')->paginate(6);

        //Then let's load the view with found data and pass the variable to the view
        return View::make('tpl.all_images')->with('images',$all_images);
    }
    public function getDelete($id) {
        //Let's first find the image
        $image = Photo::find($id);

        //If there's an image, we will continue to the deleting process
        if($image) {
            //First, let's delete the images from FTP
            File::delete(Config::get('image.upload_folder').'/'.$image->image);
    File::delete(Config::get('image.thumb_folder').'/'.$image->image);

    //Now let's delete the value from database
    $image->delete();

    //Let's return to the main page with a success message
    return Redirect::to('/')->with('success','Image deleted successfully');

  } else {
            //Image not found, so we will redirect to the index page with an error message flash data.
            return Redirect::to('/')->with('error','No image with given ID found');
        }
    }
}