i’m having difficulty attaching images to variants when creating new products. for example a product A with
variant A1 color blue size small images img1, img2 variant A2 color blue size medium image img3 img4
when I save this to the database, img1, img2, img3, img4 goes to both variant A1 and A2 instead of each variant to have its own images. How do I solve this?
here is my controller
public function variants(Request $request)
    {
        $data = $request->all();
        foreach($data['title'] as $key => $value){
          if(!empty($value)){
              $attribute = new AppVariant;
              $attribute->title  = $value;
              $attribute->size = $data['size'][$key];
              $attribute->color = $data['color'][$key];
              $attribute->save();
              $attributeID = $attribute->id;
              if($request->hasFile('image')){
                $store_file = [];
                $files = $request->file('image');
                foreach ($files as $file) {
                    $images = $file->store('public/photos');
                    $store_file[] = [
                        'filename' =>  $images,
                        'variant_id' =>  $attributeID
                    ];
                }
                ProductsPhoto::insert($store_file);
            }
          }
        }
    }
Blade file
<form  method="POST" action="{{ route('product.post') }}" enctype="multipart/form-data">
        @csrf
    @foreach($ColorSizes as $ColorSize)
            <div >
                <input type="text" name="color[]" value="{{$ColorSize->colorname}}">
                <span><input type="text" name="size[]" value="{{$ColorSize->sizename}}"></span>
             <input type="text" name="title[]" id="title"  value="" placeholder="Enter Title" required/>
             <span><input type="file" class="form-control" id="image" name="image[]" multiple/>
                </span>
            </div>
            @endforeach
<button type="Submit" id="btn" class="btn btn-primary">Submit</button>
</form>
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Answer
You need to group your form controls so that when they are submitted, you know which images go with each product.
Change your blade to something like this
@foreach($ColorSizes as $ColorSize)
        <div >
            <input type="text" name="color[{{$loop->iteration}}]" value="{{$ColorSize->colorname}}">
            <span><input type="text" name="size[{{$loop->iteration}}]" value="{{$ColorSize->sizename}}"></span>
         <input type="text" name="title[{{$loop->iteration}}]" id="title"  value="" placeholder="Enter Title" required/>
         <span><input type="file" class="form-control" id="image" name="image[{{$loop->iteration}}][]" multiple/>
            </span>
        </div>
@endforeach
Then your PHP would change to something like this.
 public function variants(Request $request)
    {
        $data = $request->all();
        foreach($data['title'] as $key => $value){
          if(!empty($value)){
              $attribute = new AppVariant;
              $attribute->title  = $value;
              $attribute->size = $data['size'][$key];
              $attribute->color = $data['color'][$key];
              $attribute->save();
              $attributeID = $attribute->id;
              if($request->hasFile("image.{$key}")){
                $store_file = [];
                // Get the correct file array based on key                    
                $files = $request->file("image.{$key}.*");
                foreach ($files as $file) {
                    $images = $file->store('public/photos');
                    $store_file[] = [
                        'filename' =>  $images,
                        'variant_id' =>  $attributeID
                    ];
                }
                ProductsPhoto::insert($store_file);
            }
          }
        }
    }
Also, I didn’t test this PHP so you might have to debug this line a little $files = $request->file('image.'.$key); to make sure it gets you the correct file array.