Cannot write to directory using Faker image

Question

I want to setup a test data through Faker using a factory. but when I try to add images to the model

        "images" => $faker->image('public/storage/images',400,300, null, false),

it returns an error

Cannot write to directory "public/storage/images"

even thought I ran

php artisan storage:link

How to solve this problem? I am using Ubuntu btw.

Answer 1

You are attempting to write to the directory public/storage/images, this is relative to the root of your server as in /public/storage/images.

You have to write to the storage directory of your app, such as:

$faker->image(storage_path('images'),400,300, null, false)

Or directly to the public folder as well:

$faker->image(public_path('images'),400,300, null, false)