Getting image path in public folder in laravel

I'm making direction using this method to upload my image

 mkdir(public_path().'/website/'.$path,0777, true);

It's supposed to create it on the root folder (Public_html) , but i found it created on new folder with name (public ) , so now i can't get the path of the image using this code

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how to get the correct path of the image or even create the folder on the public_html root path ?

via Dina Shaldoum