I have got a the following problem: I have create a simple Image Upload Process like this.

public function postImage($id){
$filename = date('Y-m-d_H:i:s').".jpg";
$note=Note::find($id);
$destinationPath='/srv/www/htdocs/example.com/api/public/projects/'.$note->project_id.'/notes/'.$id."/images/";
$file = Request::file('image');
$file->move($destinationPath, $filename);
$image = new Image;
$image->filename='projects/'.$note->project_id."/notes/images/".$filename;
$image->note_id=$id;
$image->save();
$result= $this->respondWithItem($image, new ImageTransformer);
return $result;
}

When returning filename which is in this case path to file beginning from projects plus at the end the filename it always returns something like that projects/1/notes/images/2015-03-27_10:44:291.jpg I of course dont want to have backslashes in my response.

I use a Transformer for that like this:

<?php namespace App\Http\Controllers; use Image; use League\Fractal\TransformerAbstract; class ImageTransformer extends TransformerAbstract { public function transform(Image $image) { return [ 'id' => (int) $image->id, 'filename' => $image->filename, 'note_id' => $image->note_id, 'updated_at' => strtotime((string)$image->updated_at), 'created_at' => strtotime((string)$image->created_at) ]; } } I tried everything from str_replace to stripslashes on the filename but it did not work. Am I missing something I am doing wrong? When returning just the filename directly in the controller the response is correct.