How to create or check if a folder exists before uploading a file?

Question

Laravel

Controller:

if($request->hasFile('image'))
{
            $image = $request->file('image');
            $filename = time().'.'.$image->getClientOriginalExtension();
            $location = public_path('files/images/blog/' . $filename);
            \Illuminate\Support\Facades\File::makeDirectory($location);
            Image::make($image)->save($location);
}

Mistakemkdir(): No such file or directory

Answer 1

check: www.php.su/file_exists
create: php.net/manual/ru/function.mkdir.php

Answer 2

https://laravel.com/docs/5.4/filesystem#file-uploads and Storage::makeDirectory($directory); will do everything for you.