When developing an app, you may want to attach media files to your models, such as images, videos, or documents. With this package, you can easily attach media files to your models.

The media files are stored in the specified disk and are related to the model using your database.

You can link local media files or remote ones without needing to download them to your server.

The main difference between this package and the other ones available is that this package allows you to relate media files to your models using a custom table per model.

Allowing you to manage the media tables per model instead of one unique media table for all models.

You can install the package via composer:

composer require sertxudeveloper/laravel-media-model

Next, you should publish the config file and the migrations:

php artisan vendor:publish --provider "SertxuDeveloper\Media\MediaServiceProvider"

After that, you can run the new migrations:

php artisan migrate

Finally, you can start using the package!

You should modify the model that you want to attach media files to.

<?php

namespace App\Models;

use SertxuDeveloper\Media\HasMedia;
use SertxuDeveloper\Media\Interfaces\MediaInteraction;

class Message extends Model implements MediaInteraction
{
    use HasMedia;
}

As you can see, the model has been modified to use the HasMedia trait. Also, the model must implement the MediaInteraction interface.

If you want to use a separated media table for each model, you should modify the model that you want to attach media files to.

<?php

namespace App\Models;

use SertxuDeveloper\Media\HasMedia;
use SertxuDeveloper\Media\Interfaces\MediaInteraction;

class Message extends Model implements MediaInteraction
{
    use HasMedia;

    public function getMediaTable(): string
    {
        return 'messages_media';
    }
}

The specified table needs to be created, you can create it manually or use one of the following command.

php artisan media:create-table messages_media

or

php artisan media:create-table messages

or

php artisan media:create-table "App\Models\Message"

Once you configured the model, you can attach media files to it. For example:

Note
If you don't specify a disk, the default disk will be used.

<?php

$message = Message::find(1);

$message->addMediaFromDisk(path: '/images/image.jpg', disk: 'public');

You can also attach a remote file:

Note
This will not download the file to your server. It will only add the remote file path to the database.

<?php

$message = Message::find(1);

$message->addMediaFromUrl('https://www.sertxudeveloper.com/assets/logo.svg');

Also, you can attach a file content, this will save the file to the disk and attach it to the model.

Note
This is useful if you get the content of a file from an external source, like as an email attachment read by a mail parser.

<?php

$message = Message::find(1);

$message->addMediaFromContent(
  content: file_get_contents('/tmp/tmpA3ds2'),
  originalName: 'image.jpg',
  toFolder: 'avatars',
  toDisk: 'public'
);