CKEditor Image Upload in Laravel 10

CKEditor Image Upload in Laravel 10

If you have installed ckeditor in your laravel web application. Or do you want to do it? so that you can use it to upload images in your laravel web application. And you can change the font size. Also, you can change the font color, weight, etc.

So, In this tutorial, you will learn how to install and use CKEditor to image upload in Laravel 10 apps.

CKEditor Image Upload in Laravel 10

Steps to install CKEditor and use it to upload image in your Laravel 10 application.

  • Step 1 – Installing Laravel 10 New Setup
  • Step 2 – Installing CKEditor In Laravel App
  • Step 3 – Set up CKEditor configuration
  • Step 4 – Publish the Ckeditor package by command
  • Step 5 – Add Routes
  • Step 6 – Create an Image Upload Controller in Laravel
  • Step 7 – Integrate CKEditor with your Laravel views
  • Step 8 – Upload image in ckeditor laravel

Step 1 – Installing Laravel 10 New Setup

First of all, Open your terminal or command prompt.

Then execute the following command into it download or install Laravel 10 new setup into your server:

 composer create-project --prefer-dist laravel/laravel Blog

Step 2 – Installing CKEditor In Laravel App

In this step, Open again your command prompt and terminal.

Then execute the following command on the terminal to install CKEditor in Laravel 10 apps:

composer require unisharp/laravel-ckeditor

Above command will install CKEditor packages in Laravel 10 app vendor directory.

Step 3 – Set up CKEditor configuration

Once you have installed ckeditor in laravel apps. Now, you ned to configure the CKEditor package in laravel.

So, visit to the config directory and open /app.php. Then add the below line of code to the provider’s array like the following:

Unisharp\Ckeditor\ServiceProvider::class,

Step 4 – Publish the Ckeditor package by command

In this step, Execute the following command on the terminal or command prompt to publish ckeditor package:

php artisan vendor:publish --tag=ckeditor

Step 5 – Add Routes

In this step, open web.php file, which is placed inside the routes directory. And add the following routes into it:

use App\Http\Controllers\CkeditorController;

Route::get('ckeditor', [CkeditorController::class, 'index']);

Step 6 – Create an Image Upload Controller in Laravel

In this step, Execute the following command on the terminal to create a controller:

php artisan make:controller CkeditorController

Then open the CkeditorController.php file and add the following code into it, which is placed inside the app/HTTP/controllers directory:

<?php
 
namespace App\Http\Controllers;
 
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use Validator,Redirect,Response;
 
class CkeditorController extends Controller
{
 
    public function index()
    {
        return view('ckeditor');
    }  
}

Step 7 – Integrate CKEditor with your Laravel views

In this step, visit the resources/views directory and inside this directory create one file name ckeditor.blade.php.

Then add the following code to ckeditor.blade.php file:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Install and Use CKEditor in Laravel with Image Upload - Tutsmake.com</title>
 
<meta charset="utf-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1, shrink-to-fit=no">
<meta name="description" content="">
<meta name="author" content="">
<meta name="csrf-token" content="{{ csrf_token() }}">
<!--Bootsrap 4 CDN-->
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://stackpath.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.1.3/css/bootstrap.min.css" integrity="sha384-MCw98/SFnGE8fJT3GXwEOngsV7Zt27NXFoaoApmYm81iuXoPkFOJwJ8ERdknLPMO" crossorigin="anonymous">
<script src="//cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.2.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
</head>
<body>

<div class="container-fluid">
    <textarea class="form-control" id="description" name="description"></textarea>
</div>

<script src="{{ asset('vendor/unisharp/laravel-ckeditor/ckeditor.js') }}"></script>

<script>
    CKEDITOR.replace( 'description' );
</script>
</body>
</html>

Note:- If the package of ckeditor is having some problem installing your Laravel web application. Then you add the following cdn file to your blade view file:

<script src="https://cdn.ckeditor.com/4.13.1/standard/ckeditor.js"></script>

Step 8 – Upload image in ckeditor laravel

CKEditor by default does not give the option to upload the image from your computer. If someone looking to give this option then read on. It needs to add a route, image upload and some JavaScript code to our application. At first, to enable image upload option you need to call CKEditor in the following way.

<script>
    CKEDITOR.replace( 'description', {
        filebrowserUploadUrl: "{{route('upload', ['_token' => csrf_token() ])}}",
        filebrowserUploadMethod: 'form'
    });
</script>

Here for the key filebrowserUploadUrl, we need to pass the route URL and csrf token. We will define this route in the next step. Now if you click on CKEditor’s image icon, the looks like below.

laravel ckeditor image upload
laravel ckeditor image upload

Now, create a route for upload image in Laravel 10 appp using CKEditor. Open your route/web.php file and add the following route into it:

Route::post('ckeditor/image_upload', [CkeditorController::class, 'upload'])->name('upload');

To use an image uploaded to CKEditor we need to upload the image to our application folder and send back an image URL. To store an image on a server, we will use the Laravel storage facility where we create a symbol of an on storage folder.

Next, open terminal and run the below command:

php artisan storage:link

Next, add the following method in CkeditorController.php file. This method will store the image or files in the server and return the image URL.

    public function upload(Request $request)
    {
        if($request->hasFile('upload')) {
            //get filename with extension
            $filenamewithextension = $request->file('upload')->getClientOriginalName();
      
            //get filename without extension
            $filename = pathinfo($filenamewithextension, PATHINFO_FILENAME);
      
            //get file extension
            $extension = $request->file('upload')->getClientOriginalExtension();
      
            //filename to store
            $filenametostore = $filename.'_'.time().'.'.$extension;
      
            //Upload File
            $request->file('upload')->storeAs('public/uploads', $filenametostore);
 
            $CKEditorFuncNum = $request->input('CKEditorFuncNum');
            $url = asset('storage/uploads/'.$filenametostore); 
            $msg = 'Image successfully uploaded'; 
            $re = "<script>window.parent.CKEDITOR.tools.callFunction($CKEditorFuncNum, '$url', '$msg')</script>";
             
            // Render HTML output 
            @header('Content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8'); 
            echo $re;
        }
    }

Conclusion

That’s it. In this tutorial, You have learned how to install and use CKEditor with image upload in laravel.

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My name is Devendra Dode. I am a full-stack developer, entrepreneur, and owner of Tutsmake.com. I like writing tutorials and tips that can help other developers. I share tutorials of PHP, Python, Javascript, JQuery, Laravel, Livewire, Codeigniter, Node JS, Express JS, Vue JS, Angular JS, React Js, MySQL, MongoDB, REST APIs, Windows, Xampp, Linux, Ubuntu, Amazon AWS, Composer, SEO, WordPress, SSL and Bootstrap from a starting stage. As well as demo example.

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