Get an image extension from an uploaded file in Laravel

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I have been trying to get the extension from an uploaded file  searching on google  I got no results   The file already exists in a path    Storage  get   uploads categories featured image jpg     Now  How can I get the extension of this file above   Using input fields I can get the extension like this   Input  file  thumb  - gt getClientOriginalExtension      Thanks

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Or can use the Extension Splitter Trickster  getExtention   function of https   github com secrethash trickster  Trickster  getExtention  some-funny image jpg    It returns jpg

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return  picName   time        request- gt file- gt extension     The time   function will make the image unique then the   request- gt file- gt extension   gets the image extension for you  You can use this it works well with Laravel 6 and above

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You can use the pathinfo   function built into PHP for that    info   pathinfo storage path     uploads categories featured image jpg     ext    info  extension      Or more concisely  you can pass an option get get it directly    ext   pathinfo storage path     uploads categories featured image jpg   PATHINFO EXTENSION

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The Laravel way  Try this    foo    File  extension  filename

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working code from laravel 5 2   public function store Request  request                file    request- gt file  file                if  file                                     extension     file- gt clientExtension                              echo  extension

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If you just want the extension  you can use pathinfo    ext   pathinfo  file path  PATHINFO EXTENSION

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Yet another way to do it     Where  file is an instance of Illuminate Http UploadFile  extension    file- gt getClientOriginalExtension

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Tested in laravel 5 5   extension    request- gt file  file  - gt extension

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Do something like this  if  request- gt hasFile  video           video  request- gt file  video         filename str random 20   quot   quot   video- gt extension          path   Storage  putFileAs                    video   filename              data  video    filename

[php] Get an image extension from an uploaded file in Laravel

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