How do you upload an image to a website using Laravel?

I am working on the admin part of a website for a shopping cart. I need the admin to be able to upload an image of the product. Any time I have tried to load the image in using type='file', it acts as though there isn't one. However if I echo the file it will print out the name of the file.

I need to be able to save the file in the project and then save that link to the database.

Any help would be appreciated.