public function CreateAction()
{
//Since we don't have laravel's input class registered, we'll just use what I started with.
$body = $this->detectRequestBody();
$image = json_decode(stream_get_contents($body), true);
$netid = isset($_SERVER['NETID']) ? $_SERVER['NETID'] : "notSet";
$image['netid'] = $netid;
//then create the new image
$thisimg = new Image($image);
//and save it. Could be reduced to Image::create
$thisimg->save();
//return the json object
return $thisimg->toJSON();
}