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I was wondering if it is possible to store the image from
<input type="file" id="image">
locally. Would I have to store the image, or could I simply store the image location?
For context, it’s from a form that takes name, address etc from input forms, creates an object, stores it in an array and displays the array.
No. Since storing a file or accessing a file on the local OS would violate the permissions of the browser. So your scripts cannot access the content unless it has been uploaded to the server. Also different browsers handle the path of the file that has been selected in different ways. So you encounter a number of problems there.
That said, there are some ways to get around this that I will not discuss. Simply put, the image should be uploaded to the server in some fashion and then your scripts can reference the path or the image itself from the path that it was uploaded to.