laravel 4.2 storing/uploading profilce picture and retrieving from database

i m new to laravel 4.2 i'm am developing a web application ..now i want to store a profile picture into database. can anyone help me please..!!!

this is my controller file code

 public function profilepicture(){


   $data = Input::hasfile('file');

  DB::table('company')->insert(array('data'=>$data));
  return Redirect::to('/companyreg');
    }

this is from route file

    Route::any('/company_profile','CompanyController@profilepicture');
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this is from view

<form method="post"  action="">
>                      <input type="file" name="file" />
>                  <input type="submit" name="submitfile" value="upload" />
>                          </form>